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Pragmatic Reasoning in Design
Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan +2
People can often understand and use novel artifacts after only a few interactions, suggesting that design choices communicate underlying affordances and causal structure. We propos…
Empathy in Explanation
Katherine M. Collins, Kartik Chandra, Adrian Weller +2
Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and a…
Building Machines that Learn and Think with People
Katherine M. Collins, Ilia Sucholutsky, Umang Bhatt +10
What do we want from machine intelligence? We envision machines that are not just tools for thought, but partners in thought: reasonable, insightful, knowledgeable, reliable, and t…
GOMA: Proactive Embodied Cooperative Communication via Goal-Oriented Mental Alignment
Lance Ying, Kunal Jha, Shivam Aarya +3
Verbal communication plays a crucial role in human cooperation, particularly when the partners only have incomplete information about the task, environment, and each other's mental…