Storytelling plays a central role in human socializing and entertainment, and research on
conducting storytelling with robots is gaining interest. However, much of this research …

This paper describes an approach to synthesise non-verbal behaviours for a humanoid
robot Pepper using spoken text. Our approach takes into account the sentiment of the …

Advancements in robotics have traditionally been considered the domain of engineering
and computer science. However, cross-disciplinary collaborations between the arts and …

The Storyteller: Building a Synthetic Character That Tells Stories Page 1 The Storyteller:
Building a Synthetic Character That Tells Stories André Silva IST/INESC-ID Rua Alves Redol …

We propose storytelling as a central tool in social robotics and its use in educational
environments, either for the conventional classroom or for children with special needs …

Interaction between humans and robots will benefit if people have at least a rough mental
model of what a robot knows about the world and what it plans to do. But how do we design …

Although we are currently riding a technological wave of personal assistants, many of these
agents still struggle to communicate appropriately. Humans are natural storytellers, so it …

The increasing prevalence of robots in our daily lives underscores the growing importance
of how humans socially perceive them. While these social perceptions of robots are crucial …

This work describes a study in development that uses an autonomous social robot to act as
storyteller and persuader in an interactive storytelling scenario. The robot employs …

In this paper we propose a first approximation to the generation of narrative experiences by
a service robot. The goal of such narratives is to communicate in a brief, structured and …