An Evaluation of Human Conversational Preferences in Social Human-Robot Interaction
To generate context-aware behaviors in robots, robots are required to have a careful evaluation of its encounters with humans. Unwrapping emotional hints in observable cues in an encounter will improve a robot’s etiquettes in a social encounter. This article presents an extended human study conducte...
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| description | To generate context-aware behaviors in robots, robots are required to have a careful evaluation of its encounters with humans. Unwrapping emotional hints in observable cues in an encounter will improve a robot’s etiquettes in a social encounter. This article presents an extended human study conducted to examine how several factors in an encounter influence a person’s preferences upon an interaction at a particular moment. We analyzed the nature of conversation preferred by a user considering the type of conversation a robot could have with its user, having the interaction initiated by the robot itself. We took an effort to explore how such preferences differ as the factors present in the surrounding alter. A social robot equipped with the capability to initiate a conversation is deployed to conduct the study by means of a wizard-of-oz (WoZ) experiment. During this study, conversational preferences of users could vary from “no interaction at all” to a “long conversation.” We changed three factors in an encounter which can be different from each other in each circumstance: the audience or outsiders in the environment, user’s task, and the domestic area in which the interaction takes place. Conversational preferences of users within the abovementioned conditions were analyzed in a later stage, and critical observations are highlighted. Finally, implications that could be helpful in shaping future social human-robot encounters were derived from the analysis of the results. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9442e4243d9d4aaf90d6e5421333db212025-02-03T01:29:18ZengWileyApplied Bionics and Biomechanics1176-23221754-21032021-01-01202110.1155/2021/36484793648479An Evaluation of Human Conversational Preferences in Social Human-Robot InteractionChapa Sirithunge0A. G. Buddhika P. Jayasekara1D. P. Chandima2Intelligent Service Robotics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri LankaIntelligent Service Robotics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri LankaIntelligent Service Robotics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa 10400, Sri LankaTo generate context-aware behaviors in robots, robots are required to have a careful evaluation of its encounters with humans. Unwrapping emotional hints in observable cues in an encounter will improve a robot’s etiquettes in a social encounter. This article presents an extended human study conducted to examine how several factors in an encounter influence a person’s preferences upon an interaction at a particular moment. We analyzed the nature of conversation preferred by a user considering the type of conversation a robot could have with its user, having the interaction initiated by the robot itself. We took an effort to explore how such preferences differ as the factors present in the surrounding alter. A social robot equipped with the capability to initiate a conversation is deployed to conduct the study by means of a wizard-of-oz (WoZ) experiment. During this study, conversational preferences of users could vary from “no interaction at all” to a “long conversation.” We changed three factors in an encounter which can be different from each other in each circumstance: the audience or outsiders in the environment, user’s task, and the domestic area in which the interaction takes place. Conversational preferences of users within the abovementioned conditions were analyzed in a later stage, and critical observations are highlighted. Finally, implications that could be helpful in shaping future social human-robot encounters were derived from the analysis of the results.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/3648479 |
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| title | An Evaluation of Human Conversational Preferences in Social Human-Robot Interaction |
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| title_short | An Evaluation of Human Conversational Preferences in Social Human-Robot Interaction |
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