Title
The impact of adding perspective-taking to spatial referencing during human-robot interaction.
Abstract
For effective verbal communication in collaborative tasks, robots need to account for the different perspectives of their human partners when referring to objects in a shared space. For example, when a robot helps its partner find correct pieces while assembling furniture, it needs to understand how its collaborator perceives the world and refer to objects accordingly. In this work, we propose a method to endow robots with perspective-taking abilities while spatially referring to objects. To examine the impact of our proposed method, we report the results of a user study showing that when the objects are spatially described from the users' perspectives, participants take less time to find the referred objects, find the correct objects more often and consider the task easier. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.robot.2020.103654
ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Perspective-taking,Spatial referring expressions
Journal
134
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0921-8890
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fethiye Irmak Dogan100.34
Sarah Gillet212.04
Elizabeth J. Carter3284.26
Iolanda Leite483358.84