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Our main goal is to explore how social interaction can evolve incrementally and be materialized in a protocol of communication. We intend to study how the human establishes a protocol of communication in a context that requires mutual adaptation. Sociable Dining Table (SDT) integrates a dish robot put on the table and behaves according to the knocks that the human emits. To achieve our goal, we conducted two experiments: a human-controller experiment (Wizard-of-Oz) and a human-robot interaction (HRI) experiment. The aim of the first experiment is to understand how people are building a protocol of communication. We suggest an actor-critic architecture that simulates in an open ended way the adaptive behavior that we have seen in the first experiment. We show in a human-robot interaction (HRI) experiment that our method enables the adaptation to the individual preferences in order to get a personalized protocol of communication.
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Youssef, K., De Silva, P.R.S., Okada, M. (2014). Sociable Dining Table: Incremental Meaning Acquisition Based on Mutual Adaptation Process. In: Beetz, M., Johnston, B., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_21
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