Nodding in conversations with a robot

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Lee;Neal Lesh;Candace L. Sidner;Louis-Philippe Morency;Ashish Kapoor;Trevor Darrell

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA;MIT, Cambridge, MA;MIT, Cambridge, MA;MIT, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this demo we describe our ongoing efforts to build a robot that can collaborate with a person in hosting activities. We illustrate our current robot's conversations, which include gestures of various types, and report on extensions to the robot's existing gestural abilities to be able to recognize nodding in conversations.