Model for controlling a target human's attention in multi-party settings

Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul; Das, Dipankar; Onuki, Tomomi; Kobayashi, Yoshinori; Kuno, Yoshinori

doi:10.1109/roman.2012.6343797

Cited by 6 publications

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“…Hogue et al [10] find the success of attention-getting actions by robots to depend mostly on the robot's position in the target person's visual field. If the target person is already looking in the direction of the robot, establishing eye contact is sufficient.…”

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Initiating interactions in order to get help: Effects of social framing on people's responses to robots' requests for assistance

Fischer

Soto

Pantofaru

et al. 2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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Robots often need to ask humans for help, for instance to complete a human component in a larger task or to recover from an unforeseen error. In this paper, we explore how robots can initiate interactions with people in order to ask for help. We discuss a study in which a robot initiated interaction with a participant by producing either an acoustic signal or a verbal greeting. Thereafter, the robot produced a gesture in order to request help in performing a task. We investigate the effect that social framing by means of a verbal greeting may have on people's attention to the robot, on their recognition of the robot's actions and intention, and on their willingness to help. The results show that social framing, in contrast to other methods for getting a person's continued attention, is effective and increases how friendly the robot appears. However, it has little influence on people's willingness to assist the robot, which rather depends on the activities people are engaged in, and on the readability of the robot's request.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Initiating interactions in order to get help: Effects of social framing on people's responses to robots' requests for assistance

Fischer

Soto

Pantofaru

et al. 2014

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

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“…However, if a robot approaches from behind, some kind of acoustic signal may be necessary to warn a user that a robot is approaching since other modes of communication are not available (e.g. gesture or eye contact, see, for instance, [5] and [12]). While speech seems to be the most effective strategy (see [2]), previous work on intonation suggests a considerable role of intonation contours, i.e.…”

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To Beep or Not to Beep Is Not the Whole Question

2014

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Abstract. In this paper, we address social effects of different mechanisms by means of which a robot can signal a person that it wants to pass. In the situation investigated, the robot attempts to pass by a busy, naïve participant who is blocking the way for the robot. The robot is a relatively large service robot, the Care-o-bot. Since speech melody has been found to fulfill social functions in human interactions, we investigate whether there is a difference in perceived politeness of the robot if the robot uses a beep sequence with rising versus with falling intonation, in comparison with no acoustic signal at all. The results of the experimental study (n=49) shows that approaching the person with a beep makes people more comfortable than without any sound, and that rising intonation contours make people feel more at ease than falling contours, especially women, who rate the robot that uses rising intonation contours as friendlier and warmer. The exact form of robot output thus matters.

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