Weronika Maria Sieińska

• PhD Student at Heriot-Watt University

Despite the many recent achievements in developing and deploying social robotics, there are still many underexplored environments and applications for which systematic evaluation of such systems by end-users is necessary. While several robotic platforms have been used in gerontological healthcare, the question of whether or not a social interactive...

This paper evaluates the extent to which current Large Language Models (LLMs) can capture task-oriented multi-party conversations (MPCs). We have recorded and transcribed 29 MPCs between patients, their companions, and a social robot in a hospital. We then annotated this corpus for multi-party goal-tracking and intent-slot recognition. People share...

In this paper, we propose a minimum set of concepts and signals needed to track the social state during Human-Robot Interaction. We look into the problem of complex continuous interactions in a social context with multiple humans and robots, and discuss the creation of an explainable and tractable representation/model of their social interaction. W...

This paper describes a solution for the Noetic End-to-End Response Selection challenge – one of the tasks of the 7th Dialog System Technology Challenge. The goal of the task is to select the most appropriate continuation of a dialogue from a given set of responses. We approach this problem by building an ensemble of supervised neural network based...