Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction: Building Social Bonds ■
Tony Belpaeme, Tony Belpaeme, Tony Belpaeme, Paul Baxter, Paul Baxter, Paul Baxter, Robin Read, Robin Read, Robin Read, Rachel Wood, Rachel Wood, Rachel Wood, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Bernd Kiefer, Bernd Kiefer, Bernd Kiefer, Stefania Racioppa, Stefania Racioppa, Stefania Racioppa, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Valentin Enescu, Valentin Enescu, Valentin Enescu, Rosemarijn Looije, Rosemarijn Looije, Rosemarijn Looije, Mark Neerincx, Mark Neerincx, Mark Neerincx, Yiannis Demiris, Yiannis Demiris, Yiannis Demiris, Raquel Ros Espinoza, Raquel Ros Espinoza, Raquel Ros Espinoza, Aryel Beck, Aryel Beck, Aryel Beck, Lola Canamero, Lola Canamero, Lola Canamero, Antoine Hiolle, Antoine Hiolle, Antoine Hiolle, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Lewis, Matthew Lewis, Ilaria Baroni, Ilaria Baroni, Ilaria Baroni, Marco Nalin, Marco Nalin, Marco Nalin, Piero Cosi, Piero Cosi, Piero Cosi, Giulio Paci, Giulio Paci, Giulio Paci, Fabio Tesser, Fabio Tesser, Fabio Tesser, Giacomo Sommavilla, Giacomo Sommavilla, Giacomo Sommavilla, Remi Humbert, Remi Humbert, Remi Humbert
For robots to interact effectively with human users they must be capable of coordinated, timely behavior in response to social context. The Adaptive Strategies for Sustainable Long-Term Social Interaction (ALIZ-E) project focuses on the design of long-term, adaptive social interaction between robots and child users in real-world settings. In this paper, we report on the iterative approach taken to scientific and technical developments toward this goal: advancing individual technical competencies and integrating them to form an autonomous robotic system for evaluation {"}in the wild.{"} The first evaluation iterations have shown the potential of this methodology in terms of adaptation of the robot to the interactant and the resulting influences on engagement. This sets the foundation for an ongoing research program that seeks to develop technologies for social robot companions.