A user study of a humanoid robot as a social mediator for two-person conversations

• Main Authors: Tahir, Yasir, Dauwels, Justin, Thalmann, Daniel, Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Sociometrics; Dialog
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141981
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work we have enhanced the perception of a humanoid robot by integrating it with a social state estimation system. We present a user study of the humanoid Nao robot as a social mediator, comprising two sets of experiments. In the first sets of experiments, the participants rate their understa...