FaceBots: robots utilizing and publishing social information in facebook

Authors:
Nikolaos Mavridis;Chandan Datta;Shervin Emami;Andry Tanoto;Chiraz BenAbdelkader;Tamer Rabie
Affiliations:
College of IT, UAE University, Al Ain, Uae;College of IT, UAE University, Al Ain, Uae;College of IT, UAE University, Al Ain, Uae;University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany;New York Institute of Technology, Abu Dhabi, Uae;College of IT, UAE University, Al Ain, Uae
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Our project aims at supporting the creation of sustainable and meaningful longer-term human-robot relationships through the creation of embodied robots with face recognition and natural language dialogue capabilities, which exploit and publish social information available on the web (Facebook). Our main underlying experimental hypothesis is that such relationships can be significantly enhanced if the human and the robot are gradually creating a pool of shared episodic memories that they can co-refer to (shared memories), and if they are both embedded in a social web of other humans and robots they both know and encounter (shared friends). In this paper, we are presenting such a robot, which as we will see achieves two significant novelties.