Study of the Importance of Adequacy to Robot Verbal and Non Verbal Communication in Human-Robot interaction
This work addresses acceptance challenges for homecare robots, but it is incremental as it builds on existing human-robot interaction research without introducing new methods.
The study investigated the role of verbal and nonverbal communication in human-robot interaction to determine conditions for robot acceptance, finding that alignment between these communication modes is crucial for effective interaction.
The Robadom project aims at creating a homecare robot that help and assist people in their daily life, either in doing task for the human or in managing day organization. A robot could have this kind of role only if it is accepted by humans. Before thinking about the robot appearance, we decided to evaluate the importance of the relation between verbal and nonverbal communication during a human-robot interaction in order to determine the situation where the robot is accepted. We realized two experiments in order to study this acceptance. The first experiment studied the importance of having robot nonverbal behavior in relation of its verbal behavior. The second experiment studied the capability of a robot to provide a correct human-robot interaction.