Cognitive-Inspired Conversational-Strategy Reasoner for Socially-Aware Agents

Authors: Oscar J. Romero, Ran Zhao, Justine Cassell

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental 6 Experimentation and Results Our experiments focused on evaluating three aspects of our work: 1) determining whether social reasoning can increase rapport and raise engagement; 2) evaluating the degree of effectiveness and accuracy of the Social Reasoner after the data-driven tuning process; and 3) evaluating the performance of the Social Reasoner during interaction with users.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Oscar J. Romero*, Ran Zhao+, Justine Cassell+ *Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University +Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University {oscarr, rzhao1}@andrew.cmu.edu, justine@cs.cmu.edu
Pseudocode No The paper describes a 'procedure for decision-making' in numbered steps within paragraph text, but it does not present it as structured pseudocode or a formally labeled algorithm block.
Open Source Code No The paper refers to a project website (http://articulab.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/projects/sara/) but does not contain an explicit statement about releasing the source code for the methodology described in this paper, nor a direct link to a code repository.
Open Datasets No The paper mentions collecting data from a 'Wizard-of-Oz study' ('WOZ study dataset') but does not provide any specific link, DOI, repository name, or formal citation for public access to this dataset.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions using a 'WOZ study dataset of 228 sessions' but does not provide specific details on training, validation, or test dataset splits (e.g., percentages, sample counts, or a citation to predefined splits).
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (e.g., exact GPU/CPU models, processor types, or memory amounts) used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details, such as library names with version numbers, needed to replicate the experiment.
Experiment Setup Yes Following the guidelines proposed by [Romero, 2011; Romero and de Antonio, 2012] and through empirical analysis, we determined that the best configuration of the spreading activation parameters is as follows: 1. To keep the balance between deliberation and reactivity, φ > γ, so φ = 68 and γ = 42. 2. To keep the balance between bias towards ongoing plan vs. adaptivity, π > γ π < φ, so φ = 50. 3. To preserve sensitivity to goal conflict, δ > γ, so δ = 75.