Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction

Meriam Moujahid; Bruce Wilson; Helen Hastie; Oliver Lemon

doi:10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889314

Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction

Meriam Moujahid, Bruce Wilson, Helen Hastie, Oliver Lemon

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Abstract

We present a demonstration of a Robot Receptionist: a situated interactive robot that can coordinate turn-taking and handle multi-party engagement and dialogue in dynamic environments, where users might enter or leave the scene at any time. We use a Furhat robot, which is highly expressive and can use verbal communication as well as non-verbal cues, such as facial expressions. The system demonstrated and described here is composed of several modules, including scene analysis, engagement policies, and a dialogue manager.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1202-1203
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538685549
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889314
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2022
Event	17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2022 - Online, Sapporo, Japan Duration: 7 Mar 2022 → 10 Mar 2022 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Conference

Conference	17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2022
Abbreviated title	HRI 2022
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Sapporo
Period	7/03/22 → 10/03/22
Internet address	https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Keywords

Human-robot interaction
in the wild experiment
multi-party interaction
robot receptionist
situated interaction
turn-taking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Moujahid, M, Wilson, B, Hastie, H & Lemon, O 2022, Demonstration of a Robot Receptionist with Multi-party Situated Interaction. in 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, pp. 1202-1203, 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2022, Sapporo, Japan, 7/03/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889314

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