Toward sociable robots

✍ Scribed by Cynthia Breazeal

• Book ID: 104357116
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-8890
• DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8890(02)00373-1

✦ Synopsis

This paper explores the topic of social robots-the class of robots that people anthropomorphize in order to interact with them. From the diverse and growing number of applications for such robots, a few distinct modes of interaction are beginning to emerge. We distinguish four such classes: socially evocative, social interface, socially receptive, and sociable. For the remainder of the paper, we explore a few key features of sociable robots that distinguish them from the others. We use the vocal turn-taking behavior of our robot, Kismet, as a case study to highlight these points.