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.

Citation

Foster, M. E., Gaschler, A., Giuliani, M., Isard, A., Pateraki, M., & Petrick, R. P. A. (2012, October). Two people walk into a bar: Dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent. Paper presented at 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), California, USA

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012)
• Conference Location: California, USA
• 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