Unintentional entrainment effect in a context of Human Robot Interaction: An experimental study

Ansermin, Eva; Mostafaoui, Ghilès; Sargentini, Xavier; Gaussier, Philippe

doi:10.1109/roman.2017.8172442

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“…Besides, in our recent works [ 44 , 45 ] we observed evidence of human unintentional rhythmic entrainment during HRI using a robot able to synchronize its behavior to the human subject one (bi-directional interaction). Even if we consider these studies as sort of proof of concept, we didn’t analyze the phenomena in a clear way to really confirm or deny its presence as no effective statistical analysis have been conducted.…”

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Human unintentional and intentional interpersonal coordination in interaction with a humanoid robot

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In order to establish natural social synchrony between two humans, two requirements need to be fulfilled. First, the coupling must be bi-directional. The two humans react to each other’s actions. Second, natural social bodily synchronization has to be intentional or unintentional. Assuming that these essential aspects of human-human interactions are present, the present paper investigates whether similar bodily synchrony emerges between an interacting human and an artificial agent such as a robot. More precisely, we investigate whether the same human unintentional rhythmic entrainment and synchronization is present in Human Robot Interaction (HRI). We also evaluate which model (e.g., an adaptive vs non adaptive robot) better reproduces such unintentional entrainment. And finally, we compare interagent coordination stability of the HRI under 1) unidirectional (robot with fixed frequency) versus bidirectional (robot with adaptive frequency) rhythmic entrainment and 2) human intentional versus unintentional coupling. Fifteen young adults made vertical arm movements in front of the NAO robot under five different conditions of intentional/unintentional and unidirectional/bidirectional interactions. Consistent with prior research investigating human-human interpersonal coordination, when humans interact with our robot, (i) unintentional entrainment was present, (ii) bi-directional coupling produced more stable in-phase un-intentional and intentional coordination, (iii) and intentional coordination was more stable than unintentional coordination. To conclude, this study provides a foundation for modeling future social robots involving unintentional and bidirectional synchronization—aspects which seem to enhance humans’ willingness to interact with robots.

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“…In certain situations, people appear to automatically align their speech and behavior to artificial partners. This synchronization has been shown through alignments in speaking rate (Bell et al, 2003 ), prosody (Suzuki and Katagiri, 2007 ), gestures (Iio et al, 2011 ), gestural rhythm (Ansermin et al, 2017 ), formality of speech (Kühne et al, 2013 ), vocabulary (Iio et al, 2015 ) and facial expressions (Hofree et al, 2014 ). When this alignment occurs, it tends to be associated with a positive experience of the artificial partner.…”

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Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots

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Resonance, a powerful and pervasive phenomenon, appears to play a major role in human interactions. This article investigates the relationship between the physical mechanism of resonance and the human experience of resonance, and considers possibilities for enhancing the experience of resonance within human–robot interactions. We first introduce resonance as a widespread cultural and scientific metaphor. Then, we review the nature of “sympathetic resonance” as a physical mechanism. Following this introduction, the remainder of the article is organized in two parts. In part one, we review the role of resonance (including synchronization and rhythmic entrainment) in human cognition and social interactions. Then, in part two, we review resonance-related phenomena in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). These two reviews serve as ground for the introduction of a design strategy and combinatorial design space for shaping resonant interactions with robots and AI. We conclude by posing hypotheses and research questions for future empirical studies and discuss a range of ethical and aesthetic issues associated with resonance in human–robot interactions.

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“…The occurrence of entrainment has not just been observed in humanhuman teams. Prior research has investigated if entrainment arises during collaborative tasks with robots (e.g., [2,4,15,17,22,28,48]).…”

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Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration

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Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Unintentional entrainment effect in a context of Human Robot Interaction: An experimental study

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Human unintentional and intentional interpersonal coordination in interaction with a humanoid robot

Human unintentional and intentional interpersonal coordination in interaction with a humanoid robot

Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots

Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration

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