Paper Info
Title
The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces.
Abstract
MuMMER (MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot) is a four-year, EU-funded project with the overall goal of developing a humanoid robot (SoftBank Robotics' Pepper robot being the primary robot platform) with the social intelligence to interact autonomously and naturally in the dynamic environments of a public shopping mall, providing an engaging and entertaining experience to the general public. Using co-design methods, we will work together with stakeholders including customers, retailers, and business managers to develop truly engaging robot behaviours. Crucially, our robot will exhibit behaviour that is socially appropriate and engaging by combining speech-based interaction with non-verbal communication and human-aware navigation. To support this behaviour, we will develop and integrate new methods from audiovisual scene processing, social-signal processing, high-level action selection, and human-aware robot navigation. Throughout the project, the robot will be regularly deployed in Ideapark, a large public shopping mall in Finland. This position paper describes the MuMMER project: its needs, the objectives, R&D challenges and our approach. It will serve as reference for the robotics community and stakeholders about this ambitious project, demonstrating how a co-design approach can address some of the barriers and help in building follow-up projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_74
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Field
DocType
Volume
Social robot,Computer science,Knowledge management,Entertainment robot,Human–computer interaction,Social intelligence,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Robotics,Human–robot interaction,Shopping mall,Humanoid robot
Conference
9979
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
15
0.87
References 
Authors
11
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mary Ellen Foster136436.47
Rachid Alami21858159.96
Olli Gestranius3150.87
Oliver Lemon4107286.38
Marketta Niemelä512612.81
Jean-marc Odobez61641110.52
Amit Kumar Pandey727522.84