Assisting Group Discussions Using Desktop Robot Haru

Fei Tang,Chuanxiong Zheng,Hongqi Yu,Lei Zhang,Eric Nichols,Randy Gomez,Guangliang Li,Fei Tang,Chuanxiong Zheng,Hongqi Yu,Lei Zhang,Eric Nichols,Randy Gomez,Guangliang Li

Socially assistive robots are potentially to be integrated with human daily lives in the near future, and expected to be able to improve group dynamics when interacting with groups of people in social settings. In this paper, we developed a system with desktop robot Haru to assist group discussions. The system consists of three modules: a dialogue assistance module which facilitates Haru to speak ...