Will humans mutually deliberate with social robots?

This paper shows how humor can be used as an interaction pattern to help establish sociality in human-robot interaction. Drawing illustratively from our published research on people interacting with ATR's humanoid robot Robovie, we highlight four forms ...

Over the past 10 years we have seen worldwide an immense growth of research and development into companion robots. Those are robots that fulfil particular tasks, but do so in a socially acceptable manner. The companionship aspect reflects the repeated ...

During conversations, speakers employ a number of verbal and nonverbal mechanisms to establish who participates in the conversation, when, and in what capacity. Gaze cues and mechanisms are particularly instrumental in establishing the participant roles ...