Name
Title | ||
|---|---|---|
When my robot smiles at me: Enabling human-robot rapport via real-time head gesture mimicry |
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
People use imitation to encourage each other during conversation. We have conducted an experiment to investigate how imitation
by a robot affect people’s perceptions of their conversation with it. The robot operated in one of three ways: full head gesture
mimicking, partial head gesture mimicking (nodding), and non-mimicking (blinking). Participants rated how satisfied they were
with the interaction. We hypothesized that participants in the full head gesture condition will rate their interaction the
most positively, followed by the partial and non-mimicking conditions. We also performed gesture analysis to see if any differences
existed between groups, and did find that men made significantly more gestures than women while interacting with the robot.
Finally, we interviewed participants to try to ascertain additional insight into their feelings of rapport with the robot,
which revealed a number of valuable insights. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2010 | 10.1007/s12193-009-0028-2 | Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Affective computing,Empathy,Facial expressions,Human-robot interaction,Social robotics | Social robot,Conversation,Gesture,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Facial expression,Imitation,Affective computing,Robot,Human–robot interaction | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
3 | 1 | 1783-7677 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
49 | 2.44 | 9 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel D. Riek | 1 | 215 | 25.17 |
| Philip C. Paul | 2 | 49 | 2.44 |
| Peter Robinson | 3 | 1438 | 129.42 |