Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Engagement Rules for Human-Robot Collaborative Interaction

MERL Report:  TR2003-50: Candace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee, Neal Lesh
Where Published: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2003

This paper reports on research on developing the ability for robots to engage with humans in a collaborative conversation for hosting activities. It defines the engagement process in collaborative conversation and reports on our progress in creating a robot to perform hosting activities. The paper then presents the analysis of a study of human-human "look tracking" and discusses rules that will allow a robot to track humans so that engagement is maintained.

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