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 …

To analyze the formula for success of human communication, we examined dialogs between
human interactors who were asking for directions in public place and extracted those …

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 …

We believe that robots will take an active part in our daily lives in the near future. Once this
time arrives, robots will be expected to have the social skills necessary for interacting with …

In this paper, I investigate interpersonal variation in verbal HRI with respect to the computers-
as-social-actors hypothesis. The analysis of a corpus of verbal human-robot interactions …

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 …

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 on our research on developing the abil-ity for robots to engage with
humans in a collaborative conversation. Engagement is the process by which two (or more) …

We describe a spoken dialogue interface with a mobile robot, which a human can direct to
specific locations, ask for information about its status, and supply information about its …

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 …