Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent

Foster, Mary Ellen; Gaschler, Andre; Giuliani, Manuel; Isard, Amy; Pateraki, Maria; Petrick, Ronald P. A.

Abstract

We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art components for computer vision, linguistic processing, state management, high-level reasoning, and robot control. In a user evaluation, 31 participants interacted with the bartender in a range of social situations. Most customers successfully obtained a drink from the bartender in all scenarios, and the factors that had the greatest impact on subjective satisfaction were task success and dialogue efficiency.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012)
• Start Date: Oct 22, 2012
• End Date: Oct 26, 2012
• Acceptance Date: Oct 22, 2012
• Publication Date: Oct 22, 2012
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: social robotics, multi-party interaction
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/942798
• Publisher URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2388680&CFID=730602322&CFTOKEN=87190124
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction