DBOS: A dialog-based object query system for hospital nurses

ETH Chu, ZZ Huang - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Due to the advance of indoor positioning technology, it is now possible to trace mobile
medical equipment (such as electrocardiography machines, patient monitors, and so on) …

[HTML][HTML] Mina: A robotic assistant for hospital fetching tasks

HR Nambiappan, SA Arboleda, CL Lundberg… - Technologies, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a robotic Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid (MINA) is proposed to assist nurses
with everyday object fetching tasks. MINA consists of a manipulator arm on an omni …

Theme issue on interactive mobile information access

F Crestani, M Dunlop, M Jones, S Jones… - Personal and ubiquitous …, 2006 - Springer
The volume and forms of information that mobile devices can access, store and disseminate
continue to develop at a rapid pace, and many devices provide multiple connectivity …

A conversational agent for database query: A use case for thai people map and analytics platform

T Simud, S Ruengittinun, N Surasvadi… - … Joint Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since 2018, Thai People Map and Analytics Platform (TPMAP) has been developed with the
aims of supporting government officials and policy makers with integrated household and …

Augmenting Ad-Hoc IR Dataset for Interactive Conversational Search

P Erbacher, JY Nie, P Preux, L Soulier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.06119, 2023 - arxiv.org
A peculiarity of conversational search systems is that they involve mixed-initiatives such as
system-generated query clarifying questions. Evaluating those systems at a large scale on …

[PDF][PDF] Conversational AI-A retrieval based chatbot

A Surendran, R Murali, R Babu - EasyChair Preprint, 2020 - academia.edu
Conversational AI can be simply defined as humancomputer interaction through natural
conversations. This may be through a chatbot on a website or any social messaging app, a …

Engagement and usability of conversational search–A study of a medical resource center chatbot

T Fergencs, F Meier - … , iConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31 …, 2021 - Springer
Due to advances in natural language understanding, chatbots have become popular for
assisting users in various tasks, for example, searching. Chatbots allow natural-language …

Conversational Context-sensitive Ad Generation with a Few Core-Queries

R Shibata, S Matsumori, Y Fukuchi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
When people are talking together in front of digital signage, advertisements that are aware of
the context of the dialogue will work the most effectively. However, it has been challenging …

“What Can I Cook with these Ingredients?”-Understanding Cooking-Related Information Needs in Conversational Search

A Frummet, D Elsweiler, B Ludwig - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
As conversational search becomes more pervasive, it becomes increasingly important to
understand the users' underlying information needs when they converse with such systems …

How to approach ambiguous queries in conversational search: A survey of techniques, approaches, tools, and challenges

K Keyvan, JX Huang - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The advent of recent Natural Language Processing technology has led human and machine
interactions more toward conversation. In Conversational Search Systems (CSS) like …