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 …

Two factors that been suggested to influence the ways in which people interact with robots,
namely users' initial expectations on the one hand and their increasing acquaintance with …

This study is to examine the effect of robots' language forms on people's acceptance of
robots. We applied a concept of social distance to measure people's acceptance of robots. In …

Gestures support and enrich speech across various forms of communication. Effective use of
gestures by speakers improves not only the listeners' comprehension of the spoken material …

In domestic social robot systems the dialog system is often the main user interface. The
verbal behavior of such a robot, therefore, plays crucial role in human-robot interaction …

This paper investigates the influence of feedback provided by an autonomous robot (BIRON)
on users' discursive behavior. A user study is described during which users show objects to …

Robot-directed communication is variable, and may change based on human perception of
robot capabilities. To collect training data for a dialogue system and to investigate possible …

Errors in visual perception may cause problems in situated dialogues. We investigated this
problem through an experiment in which human participants interacted through a natural …

To generate context‐aware behaviors in robots, robots are required to have a careful
evaluation of its encounters with humans. Unwrapping emotional hints in observable cues in …

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 …