Enthusiastic Robots Make Better Contact

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作者
Saad, Elie [1 ]
Broekens, Joost [2 ]
Neerinex, Mark A. [1 ,3 ]
Hindriks, Koen V. [4 ]
机构
[1] Delft Univ Technol, Dept Intelligent Syst, Grp 2, Delft, Netherlands
[2] Leiden Univ, LIACS, Leiden, Netherlands
[3] Netherlands Org Appl Sci Res TNO, Soesterherg, Netherlands
[4] Vrije Univ, Dept Comp Sci Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, Netherlands
来源
2019 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS) | 2019年
关键词
Human Robot Interaction; Robot Behaviors; Drawing Attention; Social Robotics; Enthusiastic Robots; Greeting Model;
D O I
10.1109/iros40897.2019.8967950
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
This paper presents the design and evaluation of human-like welcoming behaviors for a humanoid robot to draw the attention of passersby by following a three-step model: (1) selecting a target (person) to engage, (2) executing behaviors to draw the target's attention, and (3) monitoring the attentive response. A computer vision algorithm was developed to select the person, start the behaviors and monitor the response automatically. To vary the robot's enthusiasm when engaging passersby, a waving gesture was designed as basic welcoming behavioral element, which could be successively combined with an utterance and an approach movement. This way, three levels of enthusiasm were implemented: Mild (waving), moderate (waving and utterance) and high (waving, utterance and approach movement). The three levels of welcoming behaviors were tested with a Pepper robot at the entrance of a university building. We recorded data and observation sheets from several hundreds of passersby (N = 364) and conducted post-interviews with randomly selected passersby (N = 28). The level selection was done at random for each participant. The passersby indicated that they appreciated the robot at the entrance and clearly recognized its role as a welcoming robot. In addition, the robot proved to draw more attention when showing high enthusiasm (i.e., more welcoming behaviors), particularly for female passersby.
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页码:1094 / 1100
页数:7
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