A Study on Social Robot Behavior in Group Conversation
It addresses challenges in human-robot interaction for group conversations, but appears incremental as it builds on existing research without claiming breakthroughs.
This paper tackles the problem of social robots managing conversations in group settings with more than two participants, where conversation dynamics are more complex than one-to-one interactions, but no specific results or numbers are reported.
Recently, research in human-robot interaction began to consider a robot's influence at the group level. Despite the recent growth in research investigating the effects of robots within groups of people, our overall understanding of what happens when robots are placed within groups or teams of people is still limited. This paper investigates several key problems for social robots that manage conversations in a group setting, where the number of participants is more than two. In a group setting, the conversation dynamics are a lot more complicated than the conventional one-to-one conversation, thus, there are more challenges need to be solved.