A Multimodal Interactive Storytelling Agent Using the Anthropomorphic Robot Head Flobi

Abstract

Interactive storytelling is a social situation that places a number of demands on a system when realized by an artificial agent. It can be used as a means of teaching or entertainment by a social robot or agent. To be successful, the storytelling has to be interesting and responsive. An agent needs to be aware of the user's state and coordinate the course of the story with the user input. Thus, this is an attractive scenario for the examination of HAI topics by user studies. We implemented an interactive storytelling system using the anthropomorphic robot head Flobi that presents the story with multimodal output and, at the same time, is responsive to multimodal input. The system is designed to serve as a basis for future experiments.