@inproceedings{yaghoubzadeh-kopp-2017-enabling,
    title = "Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users",
    author = "Yaghoubzadeh, Ramin  and
      Kopp, Stefan",
    editor = "Jokinen, Kristiina  and
      Stede, Manfred  and
      DeVault, David  and
      Louis, Annie",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Annual {SIG}dial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = {Saarbr{\"u}cken, Germany},
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W17-5533/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5533",
    pages = "273--283",
    abstract = "We present the flexdiam dialogue management architecture, which was developed in a series of projects dedicated to tailoring spoken interaction to the needs of users with cognitive impairments in an everyday assistive domain, using a multimodal front-end. This hybrid DM architecture affords incremental processing of uncertain input, a flexible, mixed-initiative information grounding process that can be adapted to users' cognitive capacities and interactive idiosyncrasies, and generic mechanisms that foster transitions in the joint discourse state that are understandable and controllable by those users, in order to effect a robust interaction for users with varying capacities."
}