Sensory evaluation of expressive actions of InterRobot for human interaction and communication support

Abstract

InterRobot is the speech driven embodied interaction robot which is developed for supporting human interaction and communication by generating the expressive actions and motions coherently related to human speech input. Talkers can share the context of communication by mutual embodied entrainment via InterRobot. This paper evaluates the proposed InterRobot interaction model. Then, the effectiveness of InterRobot expressive actions in interaction is demonstrated by the sensory evaluation of paired comparison under three conditions of simple nodding, multiple nodding and the whole body motion. Actual applications of InterRobot to human interface are also demonstrated for developing a new embodied communication industry.