The mental structures that people apply towards other people have been shown to influence
the way people cooperate with others. These mental structures or schemas evoke …

This paper reports the preliminary results of a human-robot dialogue analysis in the real
world with the goal of understanding users' interaction patterns. We analyzed the dialogue …

Because robots and other electronic agents perform increasingly social functions, people
will soon face the possibility of more frequent human–robot interactions. But what kinds of …

Prior research has investigated the effect of interactive social agents presented on computer
screens or embodied in robots. Much of this research has been pursued in labs and brief …

Robots often need to ask humans for help, for instance to complete a human component in a
larger task or to recover from an unforeseen error. In this paper, we explore how robots can …

Effective communication between people and interactive robots would benefit if they have a
common ground of understanding. I discuss how the common ground principle of least …

This paper discusses the use of observational studies of human-robot social interaction in
open human-inhabited environments as a method for improving on the design and …

This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate
conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the …

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 …

Human-robot interaction could be improved by designing robots that engage in adaptive
dialogue with users. An adaptive robot could estimate the information needs of individuals …