Emily Aurelia

Prompting an Embodied AI Agent: How Embodiment and Multimodal Signaling Affects Prompting Behaviour

Current voice agents wait for a user to complete their verbal instruction before responding; yet, this is misaligned with how humans engage in everyday conversational interaction, where interlocutors use multimodal signaling (e.g. nodding, grunting, or looking at referred to objects) to ensure conversational grounding…