Towards Autonomous Child-Robot Interaction
 
Towards Autonomous Child-Robot Interaction ■
 
Georgios Athanasopoulos, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Weiyi Wang, Weiyi Wang, Weiyi Wang, Fengna Wang, Fengna Wang, Fengna Wang, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Meshia Oveneke, Meshia Oveneke, Meshia Oveneke, Valentin Enescu, Valentin Enescu, Valentin Enescu, Hichem Sahli, Hichem Sahli, Hichem Sahli, Werner Verhelst, Werner Verhelst, Werner Verhelst
 
Abstract ■

The ALIZ-E project aims at designing and developing long-term, adaptive social interaction between robots and child users (8-11 years old) in real-world settings, for which a conversational human-robot interaction system has been developed. In this context we present the auditory and visual perception components that have been specifically build for the purpose of supporting verbal and non-verbal human-robot interaction.