Recent Publications by Candy Sidner:

NOTE:  You may also contact Candy for a copies not available on the web.

Sidner, C. Humanoid Agents as Hosts, Advisors, Companions and Jesters, invited paper, Proceedings of the 21^st International Florida AI Research Society Conference, May, 2008 (forthcoming). (here)

Morency, L.P, Lee, C. , Sidner, C.   and Darrell, T. “Head Gestures for Perceptual Interfaces: The Role of Context in Improving Recognition,” Artificial Intelligence, 171(8-9): 568-585. June, 2007. (AIJ)

Rich, C. and Sidner, C. ``DiamondHelp: A generic collaborative task guidance system.'' AI Magazine: Special Issue on Mixed-Initiative Assistants. Summer, 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-114).

C.Sidner, C. Lee, Attentional Gestures in Dialogues between People and Robots, in Engineering Approaches to Conversational Informatics, T. Nishida (ed), Wiley and Sons, 2007. (here)

L-P Morency, C. Sidner and T. Darrell, Dialogue Context for Visual Feedback Recognition,  in Engineering Approaches to Conversational Informatics, T. Nishida (ed), Wiley and Sons,  2007. (here)

Rich, C. and Sidner, C. “From the Programmer's Apprentice to Human-Robot Interaction: Thirty Years of Research on Human-Computer Collaboration,” Proceedings of AAAI 2006, July, 2006  (AAAI-06).

C. Paris and C. Sidner, Special Issue on Intelligent User Interfaces, Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 20, Iss. 6, 2007.  Note also Introduction to the issue, pages 509-510. (KBS)

Bickmore, T.W. and Sidner, C.L.  Towards plan-based health behavior change counseling systems, Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare , AAAI Spring Symposium Series, April 2006 (AISpringSym).

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C.; Morency, L-P; Forlines, C., "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation", ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), ISBN: 1-59593-294-1, pp. 290-296, March 2006 (ACM Press, MERL TR2005-129, here)

Rich, C.; Sidner, C.; Lesh, N.; Garland, A.; Booth, S.; Chimani, M., "DiamondHelp: A Collaborative Task Guidance Framework for Complex Devices", National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), July 2005 (AAAI 2005, MERL-TR2004-114)

Rich, C.; Sidner, C.; Lesh, N.; Garland, A.; Booth, S.; Chimani, M., "DiamondHelp: A Collaborative Interface Framework for Networked Home Appliances", IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, pp. 514-519, June 2005 (IEEE Xplore, MERL-TR2004-114)

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C.; Kidd, C.D.; Lesh, N.; Rich, C., "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots", Artificial Intelligence, May 2005 (Science Direct, MERL-TR2005-017)

 

Morency, L.-P., Sidner, C., Darrell, T. Towards context-based visual feedback Recognition for Embodied Agents, Proceedings of the Symposium on conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence and Interaction, AISB-05, pp 69-72, 2005.

Sidner, C.L..; Lee, C., "Robots as Laboratory Hosts", Interactions, ISSN: 1072-5520, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 24-16, March 2005 (ACM Press)

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C., "Engagement During Dialogues with Robots", AAAI Spring Symposia, March 2005 (AAAI 2005 Spring Symposia, TR2005-016)

Lesh, N.; Marks, J.; Rich, C.; Sidner, C.L., "Man-Computer Symbiosis Revisited: Achieving Natural Communication and Collaboration with Computers", Transactions on Electronics (IEICE), December 2004 (IEICE 2004, TR2004-053)

Sidner, C.; Lee, C.; Kidd, C.; Lesh, N., "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots", IEEE RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robots, November 2004 (Humanoids 2004, TR2004-048)

DeVault, D.; Rich, C.; Sidner, C.L., "Natural Language Generation and Discourse Context: Computing Distractor Sets from the Focus Stack", International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS), May 2004 (FLAIRS 2004, TR2004-004)

 

C. Sidner, Building Spoken-Language Collaborative Interface Agents, in Practical Spoken Dialogue Systems, D. Dahl (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004 (TR2002-038)

Lee, C.H.; Lesh, N.B.; Sidner, C.L.; Morency, L-P; Kapoor, A.; Darrrell, T., "Nodding in Conversations with a Robot", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ISBN: 1-58113-703-6, pp. 785-786, April 2004 (ACM Press, TR2004-018)

Sidner, C.L.; Kidd, C.D.; Lee, C.H.; Lesh, N.B., "Where to Look: A Study of Human-Robot Engagement", ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), ISBN: 1-58113-815-6, pp. 78-84, January 2004 (ACM Digital Library, TR2003-123)

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C.H.; Lesh, N.B., "Engagement Rules for Human-Robot Collaborative Interactions", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (CSMC), ISSN: 1062-922X , Vol. 4, pp. 3957-3962, October 2003 (TR2003-050)

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C.H.; Lesh, N.B., "Engagement by Looking: Behaviors for Robots When Collaborating with People", Diabruck: Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Kruiff-Korbayova and Kosny (eds), Univ of Saarland, pp. 123-130, September, 2003 (DiaBruck 2003, TR2003-130)

Sidner, C.L.; Lee, C.H.; Lesh, N., "The Role of Dialog in Human Robot Interaction", International Workshop on Language Understanding and Agents for Real World Interaction, July, 2003 (TR2003-063)

Balter, O.; Sidner, C.L., "Bifrost Inbox Organizer: Giving Users Control Over the Inbox", ACM Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), ISBN: 1-58113-616-1, pp. 111-118, October 2002 (ACM Press)

Sidner, C.L.; Dzikovska, M., "Engagement between Humans and Robots for Hosting Activities", International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI), October 2002 (TR2002-037)

Sidner, C.L.; Forlines, C., "Subset Languages for Conversing with Collaborative Interface Agents", International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), September 2002 (TR2002-036)