Paper Info
Title
Robot Gaze Behavior and Proxemics to Coordinate Conversational Roles in Group Interactions
Abstract
With more social robots entering different industries such as educational systems, health-care facilities, and even airports, it is important to tackle problems that may hinder high quality interactions in a wild setting including group conversations. This paper presents an autonomous group conversational role coordinator system based on the proxemics of participants in the group with the robot including their distances and orientations. The system accordingly assigns to the group participants around the robot three different statuses: active, bystander, and overhearer. Once the statuses are estimated, the robot autonomously adjusts its gaze pattern in order to adapt to the group dynamics and attributes its attention in relation to the role the member in the group is playing. This system was evaluated through a pilot study (N=16), in which two participants at a time played a trivia game with the robot and had different roles to play within the interaction. The primary results imply that the participants interacting with a robot having this adaptive gaze behavior based on conversational role coordination are more likely to stand closer to the robot. In addition, the robot was perceived as more adaptable, sociable, and socially present as well as more likely to make the participants feel more attended to.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515550
2021 30TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (RO-MAN)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Multiparty Interaction, Proxemics, Gaze, Human-Robot Interaction, Group Dynamics
Conference
1944-9445
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karen Tatarian100.34
Marine Chamoux201.69
Amit Kumar Pandey300.34
Mohamed Chetouani400.34