How to Make a Robot Grumpy Teaching Social Robots to Stay in Character with Mood Steering
Eric Nichols,Deborah Szapiro,Yurii Vasylkiv,Randy Gomez,Eric Nichols,Deborah Szapiro,Yurii Vasylkiv,Randy Gomez
Conveying a robot's target mood is crucial to successful social interactions. The robot's expressive performance must be appropriate, persuasive, and consistent. However, this is challenging when interactions contain a mixture of scripted and improvised content, such as those generated by language models. In this paper, we take on the task of teaching robots to stay in character, that is to say, e...