A Study on Social Robot Behavior in Group Conversation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12473v2
• Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:25:41 GMT
• Title: A Study on Social Robot Behavior in Group Conversation
• Authors: Tung Nguyen and Eric Nichols and Randy Gomez
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates several key problems for social robots that manage conversations in a group setting. In a group setting, the conversation dynamics are a lot more complicated than the conventional one-to-one conversation.
• Score: 9.310598512420954
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, research in human-robot interaction began to consider a robot's influence at the group level. Despite the recent growth in research investigating the effects of robots within groups of people, our overall understanding of what happens when robots are placed within groups or teams of people is still limited. This paper investigates several key problems for social robots that manage conversations in a group setting, where the number of participants is more than two. In a group setting, the conversation dynamics are a lot more complicated than the conventional one-to-one conversation, thus, there are more challenges need to be solved.

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