Human-Agent Collaboration in Meetings

Both virtual and embodied intelligent agents are being designed and deployed in multi-user situations, and we join this research effort by proposing a series of research projects that aim to design and build a meeting facilitation agent. The agent should be able to facilitate the right activities, in the right way, and at the right moment. Our designs are informed by humanhuman group meeting theories and meeting facilitation frameworks. Moreover, we are interested in exploring the differences between human-human collaboration and human-agent collaboration, and how such uniqueness of an agent can expend human teams’ capabilities in the meeting context.