A Robotic Dating Coaching System Leveraging Online Communities Posts
This research addresses the challenge of building conversational robots for personal coaching, specifically dating, for individuals seeking accessible advice, though the current iteration is incremental.
This paper explores the feasibility of a robot as a dating coach by leveraging online community posts to build its conversational module. An evaluation with 97 participants showed that while people found the robot entertaining, they did not perceive it as helpful for dating advice.
Can a robot be a personal dating coach? Even with the increasing amount of conversational data on the internet, the implementation of conversational robots remains a challenge. In particular, a detailed and professional counseling log is expensive and not publicly accessible. In this paper, we develop a robot dating coaching system leveraging corpus from online communities. We examine people's perceptions of the dating coaching robot with a dialogue module. 97 participants joined to have a conversation with the robot, and 30 of them evaluated the robot. The results indicate that participants thought the robot could become a dating coach while considering the robot is entertaining rather than helpful.