Design of Embodied Mediator Haru for Remote Cross Cultural Communication

Randy Gomez,Deborah Szapiro,Sara Cooper,Nabil Bougria,Guillermo Pérez,Eric Nichols,Javier Giménez-Figueroa,Jose M. Perez-Moleron,Matthew Peavy,Daniel Serrano,Luis Merino,Randy Gomez,Deborah Szapiro,Sara Cooper,Nabil Bougria,Guillermo Pérez,Eric Nichols,Javier Giménez-Figueroa,Jose M. Perez-Moleron,Matthew Peavy,Daniel Serrano,Luis Merino

Social robots for children have focused mainly on conventional education domains such as teaching language, science, and math, while applications focusing on the enhancement of cultural competency are quite scarce. In this paper, we present a prototype of a robot-mediation framework for cross-cultural communication. This framework paves the way for a social robot to act as a mediator between group...