A request of the robot: An experiment with the human-robot interactive system HuRIS

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Mitsuru Sato, Kazuo Hiraki, Nobuyuki Yamasaki, Yuichiro Anzai

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss about interface for personal robot systems that are not supported by social authority. The paper consists of two parts. The first part describes HuRIS, a human-robot interactive system for supporting human-robot and human-human communication. HuRIS aims to be active as an agent of a user. A robot of HuRIS can accept voice commands by its voice recognizer, and can reply via its simple natural language processing system and voice synthesizer. The robot of HuRIS has the ability of asking a human for help by using the voice synthesizer when it is trapped in some failure. However, we see that humans around our robot do not always accept its commissions. The necessary condition that a human accepts a request of a robot is not known. So, the second part of our paper describes experiments on robot's commission in some detail. In Experiment 1, we show that a request of a robot supported by no social authority is not accepted by a human. In Experiment 2, we show by using HuRIS's interface that the performance of the subjects is generally similar for human and robot commissions. The paper concludes that the interface for HuRIS as a personal mobile robot system is effective.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication1992 Proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, ROMAN 1992
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages204-209
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)0780307534, 9780780307537
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1992
Event1992 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, ROMAN 1992 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: 1992 Sept 11992 Sept 3

Publication series

Name1992 Proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, ROMAN 1992

Conference

Conference1992 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, ROMAN 1992
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period92/9/192/9/3

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Communication

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