This paper reports a study about system response time (SRT) in communication robots that
utilize human-like social features, such as anthropomorphic appearance and conversation …

This paper reports a study about system response time (SRT) in communication robots that
utilize human-like social features, such as anthropomorphic appearance and conversation …

Since a talking robot cannot escape from errors in recognizing user's speech in daily
environment, its verbal responses are sometimes felt as incoherent with the context of …

In human-robot conversation in a real environment, low speech recognition and unnatural
response generation are critical issues. Most autonomous conversational robotic systems …

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a peripheral empathy-evoking
robotic conversation companion, Kip1. The robot's function is to increase people's …

If human-robot interaction is mainly shaped by users' strategies to deal with their unfamiliar
artificial com¬ munication partner, as it is suggested here, robot dialog design should orient …

One challenge in creating conversational service robots is how to reproduce the kind of
individual recognition and attention that a human can provide. We believe that interactions …

How is communicative gesture behavior in robots perceived by humans? Although gesture
is crucial in social interaction, this research question is still largely unexplored in the field of …

Conversational robots, which are used in the fields of education, therapy, and in expositions,
are expected to keep a user engaged in conversation. However, these robots sometimes …

Developing interactive behaviors for social robots presents a number of challenges. It is
difficult to interpret the meaning of the details of people's behavior, particularly non-verbal …