Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction

Maria Tsfasman; Avinash Saravanan; Dekel Viner; Daan Goslinga; Sarah De Wolf; Chirag Raman; Catholijn M. Jonker; Catharine Oertel

doi:10.1145/3475959.3485394

Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction

Maria Tsfasman^*, Avinash Saravanan, Dekel Viner, Daan Goslinga, Sarah De Wolf, Chirag Raman, Catholijn M. Jonker, Catharine Oertel

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How human-like do conversational robots need to look to enable long-term human-robot conversation? One essential aspect of long-term interaction is a human's ability to adapt to the varying degrees of a conversational partner's engagement and emotions. Prosodically, this can be achieved through (dis)entrainment. While speech-synthesis has been a limiting factor for many years, restrictions in this regard are increasingly mitigated. These advancements now emphasise the importance of studying the effect of robot embodiment on human entrainment. In this study, we conducted a between-subjects online human-robot interaction experiment in an educational use-case scenario where a tutor was either embodied through a human or a robot face. 43 English-speaking participants took part in the study for whom we analysed the degree of acoustic-prosodic entrainment to the human or robot face, respectively. We found that the degree of subjective and objective perception of anthropomorphism positively correlates with acoustic-prosodic entrainment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	13-18
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8679-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3475959.3485394
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, MuCAI 2021, co-located with ACM MM 2021 - Virtual, Online, China Duration: 24 Oct 2021 → …

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Name	MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021

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Conference	2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, MuCAI 2021, co-located with ACM MM 2021
Country/Territory	China
City	Virtual, Online
Period	24/10/21 → …

Keywords

acoustic-prosodic entrainment
human-robot interaction
multi-modal
prosody

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Tsfasman, M., Saravanan, A., Viner, D., Goslinga, D., De Wolf, S., Raman, C., Jonker, C. M., & Oertel, C. (2021). Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction. In MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021 (pp. 13-18). (MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3475959.3485394

Tsfasman, Maria ; Saravanan, Avinash ; Viner, Dekel et al. / Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction. MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. pp. 13-18 (MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021).

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Towards a Real-time Measure of the Perception of Anthropomorphism in Human-robot Interaction. / Tsfasman, Maria; Saravanan, Avinash; Viner, Dekel et al.
MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 13-18 (MuCAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI, co-located with ACM MM 2021).

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