@InProceedings{yaghoubzadeh-kopp:2017:W17-55,
  author    = {Yaghoubzadeh, Ramin  and  Kopp, Stefan},
  title     = {Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
  month     = {August},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Saarbrücken, Germany},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W17-5533}
}