Welcoming Robot Behaviors for Drawing Attention

Elie Saad; Mark A. Neerincx; Koen V. Hindriks

doi:10.1109/HRI.2019.8673325

Welcoming Robot Behaviors for Drawing Attention

Elie Saad, Mark A. Neerincx, Koen V. Hindriks

Interactive Intelligence

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Abstract

Humans use several social cues, both verbal and nonverbal, to draw the attention of others. In this study we investigate whether similar behaviors can also be effectively used by a social robot for drawing attention. To this end, we setup a welcoming humanoid (Pepper) at the entrance of a university building. Its behaviors include one or a combination of behavioral modalities (i.e., a waving gesture, utterance and movement). These behaviors are triggered automatically based on people detection software which tracks passersby and monitors their head keypoints. Our findings imply that Pepper draws more attention when displaying a combination of modalities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	368-368
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-8555-6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-8556-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673325
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019 - Daegu, Korea, Republic of Duration: 11 Mar 2019 → 14 Mar 2019

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Conference	14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Daegu
Period	11/03/19 → 14/03/19

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Drawing Attention
Human Robot Interaction
Initial Engagement
Robot Behaviors

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Saad, E , Neerincx, MA & Hindriks, KV 2019, Welcoming Robot Behaviors for Drawing Attention. in 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) ., 8673325, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 368-368, 14th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2019, Daegu, Korea, Republic of, 11/03/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673325

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