Development of Means for Support of Comfortable Conditions for Human-Robot Interaction in Domestic Environments

Abstract

Humanoid shape and style of communication became more popular and possible for state-of-the-art social robot due to rapid development of the embedded systems and the methods for audiovisual processing of natural modalities. The detection of psychologically comfortable conditions for communication is a one of fundamental problems at the development of user interfaces for domestic robots. In this paper the modern works devoted to the psychological aspects of user-robot interaction, issues of the proximity and appearance of robot are considered. The heterogeneous sensors used for detection and tracking user as well as techniques for registration of audio-visual data used for extraction of user preferences, which are applied in the developed information mobile robot, are presented.