HAI 2024 Workshop Proposal: Fluidity in Human-Agent Interaction

Julian Hough, Carlos Valter Baptista De Lima, Frank Förster, Patrick Holthaus, Yongjun Zheng

Abstract: Fluidity is a key quality of human-human and more natural human-agent interaction (HAI). The concept of fluidity is difficult to define formally, however, interaction partners and users perceive the difference between more and less fluid interaction. As an initial informal definition, fluidity in interaction can be considered the abilities to seamlessly transition in turn-taking, to allow appropriate overlap of turns between agents, including multimodally, and to allow action using prediction. The purpose of this workshop is to bring agent designers together to attempt to define fluidity in interaction more precisely and propose ways in which we can make HAI more fluid.