ETRW on Dialogue and Prosody September 1-3, 1999 Veldhoven, The Netherlands

Measuring the Effects of Backchanneling in Computerized Oral Reading Tutoring

Greg Aist and Jack Mostow

Project LISTEN, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

What is the effect of backchanneling on human-computer dialog, and how should such effects be measured? We present experiments designed to evaluate the immediate effects of backchanneling on computer-assisted oral reading tutoring. These experiments are implemented in a reading tutor that listens to children read aloud, and helps them learn to read. As a byproduct of designing, conducting, and evaluating these experiments, we are able to describe some unique methodological challenges in evaluating the effects of low-level turn taking dialog behavior.

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Bibliographic reference.  Aist, Greg / Mostow, Jack (1999): "Measuring the effects of backchanneling in computerized oral reading tutoring", In DIAPRO-1999, 175-180.