We present an approach to enhance the interaction abilities of the Nao humanoid robot by
extending its communicative behavior with non-verbal gestures (hand and head …

The paper presents a multimodal conversational interaction system for the Nao humanoid
robot. The system was developed at the 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal …

This paper discusses a new method to investigate the use of Non-Verbal Cues in Human-
Robot Interaction with the Nao platform built from a number of sensors, controllers and …

Gesture is an important feature of social interaction, frequently used by human speakers to
illustrate what speech alone cannot provide, eg to convey referential, spatial or iconic …

Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency
and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal …

We introduce a new conversational Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) dataset with a real-
behaving robot inducing interactive behavior with and between humans. Our scenario …

Robots are more and more present in our daily life; they have to move into human-centered
environments, to interact with humans, and to obey some social rules so as to produce an …

We aim at equipping the humanoid robot NAO with the capacity of performing expressive
communicative gestures while telling a story. Given a set of intentions and emotions to …

We report the development and evaluation of a new interactive humanoid robot that
communicates with humans and is designed to participate in human society as a partner. A …

To facilitate natural Human-Robot Interaction, body language cues are used on various
humanoid robots. In this paper, usage of semantic gestures for humanoid robot Nao is …