Redondo, Maria Elena Lechuga
Sciutti, Alessandra
Incao, Sara
Rea, Francesco
Niewiadomski, Radoslaw
2021-03-08
<p>Interaction among humans does not always proceed without errors; situations might happen in which a wrong word or attitude can cause the partner to feel uneasy. However, humans are often very sensitive to these interaction failures and may be able to fix them.</p>
<p>Our research aims to endow robots with the same skill. Thus the first step, presented in this short paper, investigates to what extent a humanoid robot can impact someone’s Comfortability in a realistic setting. To capture natural reactions, a set of real interviews performed by the humanoid robot iCub (acting as the interviewer) were organized. The interviews were designed in collaboration with a journalist from the press office of our institution and are meant to appear on the official institutional online magazine. The dialogue along with fluent human-like robotic actions were chosen not only to gather information about the participants’ personal interests and professional career, necessary for the magazine column, but also to influence their Comfortability.</p>
<p>Once the experiment is completed, the participants’ self-report and spontaneous reactions (physical and physiological cues) will be explored to tackle the way people’s Comfortability may be manifested through non-verbal cues, and the way it may be impacted by the humanoid robot.</p>
https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447156
oai:zenodo.org:4601668
eng
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Comfortability, Human-Robot Social Interaction, Affective Com- puting, Humanoid Robot
Can Robots Impact Human Comfortability During a Live Interview?
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