Study of the Importance of Adequacy to Robot Verbal and Non Verbal\n Communication in Human-Robot interaction

Abstract

The Robadom project aims at creating a homecare robot that help and assist\npeople in their daily life, either in doing task for the human or in managing\nday organization. A robot could have this kind of role only if it is accepted\nby humans. Before thinking about the robot appearance, we decided to evaluate\nthe importance of the relation between verbal and nonverbal communication\nduring a human-robot interaction in order to determine the situation where the\nrobot is accepted. We realized two experiments in order to study this\nacceptance. The first experiment studied the importance of having robot\nnonverbal behavior in relation of its verbal behavior. The second experiment\nstudied the capability of a robot to provide a correct human-robot interaction.\n