A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive

Thomas Beelen; Roeland Ordelman; Khiet P. Truong; Vanessa Evers; Theo Huibers

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11

A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive

Thomas Beelen^*, Roeland Ordelman, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers, Theo Huibers

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In this paper we introduce a conversational robot designed to assist children in searching a museum’s cultural heritage video archive. The robot employs a form of Spoken Conversational Search to facilitate the clarification of children’s interest (their information need) in specific videos from the archive. Children are typically insufficiently supported in this process by common search technologies such as search-bar and keyboard, or one-shot voice interfaces. We present our approach, which leverages a knowledge-graph representation of the museum’s video archive to facilitate conversational search interactions and suggest content based on the interaction, in order to study information-seeking conversations with children. We plan to use the robot test-bed to investigate the effectiveness of conversational designs over one-shot voice interactions for clarifying children’s information needs in a museum context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Information Retrieval
Subtitle of host publication	46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V
Editors	Nazli Goharian, Nicola Tonellotto, Yulan He, Aldo Lipani, Graham McDonald, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	144–151
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-56069-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-56068-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11
Publication status	Published - 24 Mar 2024

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	14612
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Beelen, T., Ordelman, R., Truong, K. P., Evers, V., & Huibers, T. (2024). A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive. In N. Goharian, N. Tonellotto, Y. He, A. Lipani, G. McDonald, C. Macdonald, & I. Ounis (Eds.), Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V (pp. 144–151). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14612). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11

Beelen, Thomas ; Ordelman, Roeland ; Truong, Khiet P. et al. / A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive. Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V. editor / Nazli Goharian ; Nicola Tonellotto ; Yulan He ; Aldo Lipani ; Graham McDonald ; Craig Macdonald ; Iadh Ounis. Cham : Springer, 2024. pp. 144–151 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Beelen, T, Ordelman, R , Truong, KP , Evers, V & Huibers, T 2024, A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive. in N Goharian, N Tonellotto, Y He, A Lipani, G McDonald, C Macdonald & I Ounis (eds), Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 14612, Springer, Cham, pp. 144–151. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11

A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive. / Beelen, Thomas; Ordelman, Roeland ; Truong, Khiet P. et al.
Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V. ed. / Nazli Goharian; Nicola Tonellotto; Yulan He; Aldo Lipani; Graham McDonald; Craig Macdonald; Iadh Ounis. Cham: Springer, 2024. p. 144–151 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 14612).

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Beelen T, Ordelman R , Truong KP , Evers V , Huibers T. A Conversational Robot for Children’s Access to a Cultural Heritage Multimedia Archive. In Goharian N, Tonellotto N, He Y, Lipani A, McDonald G, Macdonald C, Ounis I, editors, Advances in Information Retrieval: 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2024, Glasgow, UK, March 24–28, 2024, Proceedings, Part V. Cham: Springer. 2024. p. 144–151. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_11

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