The need for a model of contact and perception to support natural interactivity in human-robot communication

• In studies of human-robot communication we have observed that the robot's inability to give appropriate communicative feedback for contact and perception causes miscommunication [2]. The purpose of this paper is to motivate the need for and give air initial characterisation of a model for communicative contact and perception feedback. One component of a such a model could be a kind of low-level user model aiming to decide the perceptual status of the user. We have analysed an example of inter-action that shows signs of miscommunication that is related to feedback problems concerning contact and perception. Using the analysis to pinpoint the source. of these problem,,; we provide tin initial account for the type of information sources that a low-level user that handles communicative contact and perception feedback should comprise. We also provide two design examples that in our view motivates this explorative effort.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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