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A larger audience, please!: encouraging people to listen to a guide robot

Authors:

Masahiro Shiomi,

Takayuki Kanda,

Hiroshi Ishiguro,

Norihiro HagitaAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

Pages 31 - 38

Published: 02 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Tour guidance is a common task of social robots. Such a robot must be able to encourage the participation of people who are not directly interacting with it. We are particularly interested in encouraging people to overhear its interaction with others, since it has often been observed that even people who hesitate to interact with a robot are willing to observe its activity. To encourage such participation as bystanders, we developed a robot that walks backwards based on observations of human tour guides. Our developed system uses a robust human tracking system that enables a robot to guide people by walking forward/backward and allows us to scrutinize people's behavior after the experiment. We conducted a field experiment to compare the ratios of overhearing in "walking forward" and "walking backward." The experimental results revealed that in fact people do more often overhear the robot's conversation in the "walking backward" condition.

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A larger audience, please!: encouraging people to listen to a guide robot
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Control methods
      1. Robotic planning
    2. Planning and scheduling
      1. Robotic planning

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HRI '10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

March 2010

400 pages

ISBN:9781424448937

General Chairs:
Pamela Hinds
Stanford University, USA
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Hiroshi Ishiguro
Osaka University, Japan
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ATR, Japan
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Peter Kahn
University of Washington, USA

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488242
Fukuda HYamazaki KYamazaki ASaito YIiyama EYamazaki SKobayashi YKuno YIkeda KD'Mello SGeorgiou PScherer SProvost ESoleymani MWorsley M(2018)Enhancing Multiparty Cooperative MovementsProceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction10.1145/3242969.3242983(409-417)Online publication date: 2-Oct-2018
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Vázquez MCarter EMcDorman BForlizzi JSteinfeld AHudson SMutlu BTscheligi MWeiss AYoung J(2017)Towards Robot Autonomy in Group ConversationsProceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/2909824.3020207(42-52)Online publication date: 6-Mar-2017
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