DEliBot – Deliberation Enchancing Bot

Project Description

Group deliberation occurs in a variety of contexts, such as hiring panels, study groups, and scientific project meetings. What is in common across these applications is that individuals in the group incorporate various deliberation strategies to communicate their ideas and ultimately to reach the best decision. This process of open dialogue creates a platform for ideas to be exchanged, debated, and evaluated, which allows for a wide array of perspectives to be presented and considered. Deliberation offers a framework that both allows for the propagation of ideas within a group, as well as facilitates the refinement of arguments and the introduction of new ideas.

The ultimate goal of the DEliBot project is to develop dialogue agents, that can provide the framework, where groups of people can collaborate efficiently with each other. The DEliBot should ask good probing questions that promote good arguments, healthy dialogue dynamics, and the propagation of good ideas.

News

• [26.01.2022] DEliBot project presentation at the Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group @The Alan Turing Institute
• [09.09.2022] “What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations” is presented at SIGDIAL’2022. [Link to slides]
• [26.07.22] Our paper “What makes you change your mind? An empirical investigation in online group decision-making conversations” was accepted at SIGDIAL’2022 (to be presented in September). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12035

• [29.05.2022] Tom Stafford was invited to the “You are not so smart” podcast by David McRaney. In the podcast, Tom presented his take on how deliberation and DEliBots may help us make better decisions. Check out the podcast: https://omny.fm/shows/you-are-not-so-smart/234-the-truth-wins-tom-stafford