A Mixed-initiative Dialogue System for Smart Homes

• Main Authors: Wang,Tsung-Chieh, 王琮杰
• Other Authors: Alan Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3ka5f5

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 電機工程研究所 === 103 === A smart home system provides appropriate services to users, depending on the current situation in the smart home environment. In some cases, the system cannot reason the service that users need. Thus, the users need an interface to express their requests to the smart home system. For this reason, we propose a spoken dialogue system that allows users to deliver their requests. These requests include device control and information inquiry. Additionally, this system also supports abstract requests, like “The room is so hot”, “I’m bored” and other sentences. The service planning subsystem will determine the combination of operations after it receives the abstract requests. Although we use the abstract requests to let users express requests more freely, it is not enough. The dialogue system does not only satisfy the requests that the users have proposed but also pays attention to the interaction in dialog. Thus, the system initiates extra sentences to make the interaction more frequent and collects additional information within dialog. The system-initiated sentences contain clarifying statements, active suggestions, and additional service options. By using such sentences, the dialogue system can grasp the initiative of the dialog, and make the dialogue system more natural and flexible in dialog. Thus, the dialogue system is not just an interface but plays a role of a housekeeper in the smart home.