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This paper attempts to improve a chatting robot that enables to chat with a user while the user is watching television programs. Previously developed robot interacts with two problems because it utters chat sources from social media such as Twitter. Firstly, it is delayed with a few seconds between the contents of TV program and social media comments, so what robot’s utterance doesn’t relate to the scene being broadcast. Secondly, there is overlap between the utterance of TV and the robot. These problems often make users discomfort when they want to continue to daily-use communication. Therefore, this paper introduces the time-shifting method allowing to improve both problems simultaneously. The experiments for using subjective evaluation by 12 subjects and three kinds of TV program are conducted to compare the robot applied time-shifted and previous one. The results show that the robot with time shifting improves user satisfaction in terms of the synchronization of TV scenes and chat sources.
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This work was supported by the JSPS Foundation 15K00272 and Research Complex Promotion Program. The authors would like to thank them.
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Nishimura, S., Kawanami, H., Kanbara, M., Hagita, N. (2017). A TV Chat Robot with Time-Shifting Function for Daily-Use Communication. In: Kheddar, A., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_51
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