Towards Engagement Models that Consider Individual Factors in HRI: On the Relation of Extroversion and Negative Attitude Towards Robots to Gaze and Speech During a Human–Robot Assembly Task

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• 作者：Serena Ivaldi ; Sebastien Lefort ; Jan Peters…
• 关键词：Human–robot interaction ; Social signals ; Engagement ; Personality
• 刊名：International Journal of Social Robotics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：63-86
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Control, Robotics, Mechatronics;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1875-4805
• 卷排序：9

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Estimating the engagement is critical for human–robot interaction. Engagement measures typically rely on the dynamics of the social signals exchanged by the partners, especially speech and gaze. However, the dynamics of these signals are likely to be influenced by individual and social factors, such as personality traits, as it is well documented that they critically influence how two humans interact with each other. Here, we assess the influence of two factors, namely extroversion and negative attitude toward robots, on speech and gaze during a cooperative task, where a human must physically manipulate a robot to assemble an object. We evaluate if the score of extroversion and negative attitude towards robots co-variate with the duration and frequency of gaze and speech cues. The experiments were carried out with the humanoid robot iCub and N = 56 adult participants. We found that the more people are extrovert, the more and longer they tend to talk with the robot; and the more people have a negative attitude towards robots, the less they will look at the robot face and the more they will look at the robot hands where the assembly and the contacts occur. Our results confirm and provide evidence that the engagement models classically used in human–robot interaction should take into account attitudes and personality traits.