| Volume 21 Issue 10 - Publication Date: 1 October 2002 |
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| Special issue on International
Symposia on Experimental Robotics 2000 |
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| Regulation and Entrainment in
Human-Robot Interaction |
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| Cynthia Breazeal MIT
Media Lab, 77 Massachusetts Ave NE18-5fl, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA |
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| Newly emerging robotics applications
for domestic or entertainment purposes are slowly introducing autonomous
robots into society at large. A critical capability of such robots is their
ability to interact with humans, and in particular, untrained users. In
this paper we explore the hypothesis that people will intuitively interact
with robots in a natural social manner provided the robot can perceive,
interpret, and appropriately respond with familiar human social cues. Two
experiments are presented where naive human subjects interact with an anthropomorphic
robot. We present evidence for mutual regulation and entrainment of the
interaction, and we discuss how this benefits the interaction as a whole. |
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Example
One: Samples of Kismet recognizing praise, prohibition, attentional
bids, and soothing utterances through prosody. (31.4 MB) |
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Example
Two: Kismet engaging in a protodialog with two people. (6.0
MB) |
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Example
Three: Kismet engaging in a protodialog with one person. (5.8
MB) |
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