@inproceedings{9f7596d69d0c4ce6af0e3fa9d77dc638,
title = "DesertWoZ: a Wizard of Oz environment to support the design of collaborative conversational agents",
abstract = "The use of conversational agents to support team-based training in virtual environments is a nascent area of research within the Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) and Conversational User Interface (CUI) communities. To support this research, we developed a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) system enabling experimenters to play the role of the conversational agent who must work with a team of three human participants to herd together a group of autonomous robots (target agents) within a virtual task environment. The experimenter can select from one of several tailored responses. The aim of this environment is to determine whether the identified responses facilitate effective team performance and to collect training data to build a conversational agent capable of engaging in team based virtual learning environments.",
keywords = "collaborative agent, conversational user interface, virtual environment, wizard of oz",
author = "James Simpson and Hamish Stening and Patrick Nalepka and Mark Dras and Reichle, {Erik D.} and Simon Hosking and Best, {Christopher J.} and Deborah Richards and Richardson, {Michael J.}",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1145/3500868.3559711",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "188--192",
booktitle = "CSCW '22",
note = "ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (25th : 2022), CSCW 2022 ; Conference date: 08-11-2022 Through 22-11-2022",
}