NDLI: FaceBots: Social robots utilizing FaceBook

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Mavridis, N. Datta, C. Emami, S. Tanoto, A. BenAbdelkader, C. Rabie, T.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: New York Inst. of Technol., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (BenAbdelkader, C.) \|\| Heinz-Nixdorf Inst., Univ. of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany (Tanoto, A.) \|\| Interactive Robots & Media Lab., UAE Univ., Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (Mavridis, N.; Datta, C.; Emami, S.; Rabie, T.)
Abstract	Summary form only given. Although existing robotic systems are interesting to interact with in the short term, it has been shown that after some weeks of quasi-regular encounters, humans gradually lose their interest, and meaningful longer-term human-robot relationships are not established. An underlying hypothesis driving the proposed project is that such relationships can be significantly enhanced if the human and the robot are gradually creating a pool of shared episodic memories that they can co-refer to, and if they are both embedded in a social web of other humans and robots they both know and encounter frequently. Thus, here we propose to use Facebook, a highly successful online networking resource for humans, towards enhancing longer-term human-robot relationships, by helping to address the above two prerequisites. As a starting point, we utilize social information in order to personalize human-robot dialogues, and to include references to past encounters and to encounters with friends within dialogues. A robot equipped with a modular software architecture (with IPC-intercommunicating modules for face recognition, a simple dialog system, a navigation subsystem, and a real-time Facebook connection/local social database) has been deployed, and is encountering humans in the environment of our lab. An early demonstration of a basic form of such encounters is shown in the submitted video. The system is expected to achieve two significant novelties: arguably being one of the first robots to be embedded in a social web, and being the first robot that can purposefully exploit and create social information that is available online. Furthermore, it is expected to provide empirical support for our main driving hypothesis, that the formation of shared episodic memories within a social web can lead to more meaningful long-term human-robot relationships.
Sponsorship	IEEE Robotics Autom. Soc.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	195
File Size	359045
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605584041
ISSN	21672148
e-ISBN	9781605584041
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-03-11
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software architecture Social robots Humans Human-robot interaction Abstracts Media Educational institutions Conversational robots Facebook Robots
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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