TR2005-129

The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation


    •  Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Morency, L.-P., Forlines, C., "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation", ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 2006, pp. 290-296.
      BibTeX TR2005-129 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Sidner2006mar,
      • author = {Sidner, C.L. and Lee, C. and Morency, L.-P. and Forlines, C.},
      • title = {The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation},
      • booktitle = {ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
      • year = 2006,
      • pages = {290--296},
      • month = mar,
      • isbn = {1-59593-294-1},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2005-129}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Robotics

Abstract:

This paper reports on a study of human participants with a robot designed to participate in a collaborative conversation with a human. The purpose of the study was to investigate a particular kind of gestural feedback from human to the robot in these conversations: head nods. During these conversations, the robot recognized head nods from the human participant. The conversations between human and robot concern demonstrations of inventions created in a lab. We briefly discuss the robot hardware and architecture and then focus the paper on a study of the effects of understanding head nods in three different conditions. We conclude that conversation itself triggers head nods by people in human-robot conversations and that telling participants that the robot recognizes their nods as well as having the robot provide gestural feedback of its nod recognition is effective in producing more nods. We will present video clips of the subject interactions with the robot at the conference.

 

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      • The paper "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Morency, L.-P. and Forlines, C. was presented at the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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