Learning Turn-Taking Behavior from Human Demonstrations for Social Human-Robot Interactions

Pourya Shahverdi,Alexander Tyshka,Madeline Trombly,Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie,Pourya Shahverdi,Alexander Tyshka,Madeline Trombly,Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie

Turn-taking is a fundamental behavior during human interactions and robots must be capable of turn-taking to interact with humans. Current state-of-the-art approaches in turn-taking focus on developing general models to predict the end of turn (EoT) across all contexts. This demands an all-inclusive verbal and non-verbal behavioral dataset from all possible contexts of interaction. Before robot de...