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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents the design and evaluation of human-like welcoming behaviors for a humanoid robot to draw the attention of passersby by following a three-step model: (1) selecting a target (person) to engage, (2) executing behaviors to draw the target's attention, and (3) monitoring the attentive response. A computer vision algorithm was developed to select the person, start the behaviors and monitor the response automatically. To vary the robot's enthusiasm when engaging passersby, a waving gesture was designed as basic welcoming behavioral element, which could be successively combined with an utterance and an approach movement. This way, three levels of enthusiasm were implemented: Mild (waving), moderate (waving and utterance) and high (waving, utterance and approach movement).The three levels of welcoming behaviors were tested with a Pepper robot at the entrance of a university building. We recorded data and observation sheets from several hundreds of passersby (N = 364) and conducted post-interviews with randomly selected passersby (N = 28). The level selection was done at random for each participant. The passersby indicated that they appreciated the robot at the entrance and clearly recognized its role as a welcoming robot. In addition, the robot proved to draw more attention when showing high enthusiasm (i.e., more welcoming behaviors), particularly for female passersby. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967950 | 2019 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Human Robot Interaction, Robot Behaviors, Drawing Attention, Social Robotics, Enthusiastic Robots, Greeting Model | Social robot,Computer vision,Enthusiasm,Computer science,Gesture,Utterance,Human–computer interaction,Computer vision algorithms,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2153-0858 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Elie Saad | 1 | 4 | 2.24 |
| Joost Broekens | 2 | 344 | 37.07 |
| Mark A. Neerincx | 3 | 757 | 96.80 |
| Koen V. Hindriks | 4 | 238 | 37.43 |