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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.

Authors

Mary Ellen Foster

Andre Gaschler

Manuel Giuliani Manuel.Giuliani@uwe.ac.uk
Co- Director Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Amy Isard

Maria Pateraki

Ronald P. A. Petrick



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Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (unpublished)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