A Robot in the Kitchen

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  • Peter Wallis
چکیده

A technology demonstrator is one thing but having people use a technology is another, and the result reported here is that people often ignore our lovingly crafted handiwork. The SERA project Social Engagement with Robots and Agents was set up to look explicitly at what happens when a robot companion is put in someone’s home. Even if things worked perfectly, there are times when a companion’s human is simply not engaged. As a result we have separated our “dialog manager” into two parts: the dialog manager itself that determines what to say next, and an “interaction manager” that determines when to say it. This paper details the design of this SALT-E architecture.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010