This chapter surveys some of the principal research trends in Social Robotics and its
application to human–robot interaction (HRI). Social (or Sociable) robots are designed to …

Robots, as the creation of humans, became an irreplaceable component in human society.
With the advancement of technologies, robots have become more and more intelligent and …

Turn-taking interactions with humans are multimodal and reciprocal in nature. In addition,
the timing of actions is of great importance, as it influences both social and task strategies …

We present a novel design framework enabling the development of social robotics
applications by cross-disciplinary teams of programmers and interaction designers. By …

Automatic extraction and analysis of meaning-related information from natural language
data has been an important issue in a number of research areas, such as natural language …

Robots, in contrast to typical computational systems, affect the physical environment directly.
Therefore, other assumptions must be considered for task management procedures in these …

Socially-enabled digital technologies have attracted academic interest for decades, with
recent commercial examples of Siri and Alexa, capturing public attention. However, despite …

The development of interactive computer systems is expensive and time-consuming.
Further, the user interface to Such systems poses a significant challenge. Despite years of …

Human-robot interaction (HRI) may play a key role in enhancing a robot's capability in
practical service tasks, allowing productive human-robot collaboration. To obtain …

The present invention provides a chat information system having a voice recognition device
for recognizing voices, a voice synthesizer, a humanoid robot, a microphone for receiving …