- M. Marge, Aasish Pappu, Benjamin Frisch, T. Harris, Alexander I. Rudnicky. 2009. Exploring Spoken Dialog Interaction in Human-Robot Teams. Abstract: We describe TeamTalk: A human-robot interface capable of interpreting spoken dialog interactions between humans and robots in consistent real-world and virtual-world scenarios. The system is used in real environments by humanrobot teams to perform tasks associated with treasure hunting. In order to conduct research exploring spoken human-robot interaction, we have developed a virtual platform using USARSim. We describe the system, its use as a high-fidelity simulator with USARSim, and current experiments that benefit from a simulated environment and that would be difficult to implement in real-world scenarios.
