From Human Pragmatic Language Skills to Conversational Agent Design: A Systematic Review of Transfer Strategies

要旨

While conversational agents’ (CAs) semantic and syntactic capabilities have advanced, their pragmatic skills, using language appropriately in context, have emerged as a critical focus in practical applications. Hence, scholars integrate conversational skills derived from human-human interaction into CA designs. However, existing research mainly adopts an empirical approach and focuses on specific CA deployment, making it challenging to identify overarching patterns or develop a comprehensive methodology for transferring human pragmatic skills to CA design. Thus, we conducted a systematic review of 85 studies from primary databases (e.g., ACM, IEEE, etc.), focusing on designing CAs with human-derived conversational skills. We identified skill categories (verbal, paralinguistic, nonverbal), transfer strategies (from dialog data, theories, and via co-design), implementations, and evaluation metrics. We consolidated these insights into a four-stage design process: human skill exploration, definition, transfer, and iterative evaluation. Future research can leverage this to design CAs that achieve conversational goals through contextually appropriate language use.

著者
Jiaxiong Hu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
Xiwen Yao
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Zeyu Huang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
Danxuan LIANG
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China
Dongjie Yang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Hong Kong , Hong Kong, China
Dingdong Liu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong , China
Junze Li
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yuanhao Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Xiaojuan Ma
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

会議: CHI 2026

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

セッション: LLM Interaction & Conversational Agents

P1 - Room 113
7 件の発表
2026-04-14 20:15:00
2026-04-14 21:45:00