INTEGRATING POINTING GESTURES INTO A SPANISH–SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATIONAL SERVICE ROBOTS

Héctor Avilés, Iván Meza, Wendy Aguilar, Luis Pineda

2010

Abstract

In this paper we present our work on the integration of human pointing gestures into a spoken dialog system in Spanish for conversational service robots. The dialog system is composed by a dialog manager, an interpreter that guides the spoken dialog and robot actions, in terms of user intentions and relevant environment stimuli associated to the current conversational situation. We demonstrate our approach by developing a tour–guide robot that is able to move around its environment, visually recognize informational posters, and explain sections of the poster selected by the user via pointing gestures. This robot also incorporates simple methods to qualify confidence in its visual outcomes, to inform about its internal state, and to start error–prevention dialogs whenever necessary. Our results show the reliability of the overall approach to model complex multimodal human–robot interactions.

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Avilés H., Meza I., Aguilar W. and Pineda L. (2010). INTEGRATING POINTING GESTURES INTO A SPANISH–SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATIONAL SERVICE ROBOTS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 585-588. DOI: 10.5220/0002722605850588


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Héctor Avilés and Iván Meza and Wendy Aguilar and Luis Pineda},
title={INTEGRATING POINTING GESTURES INTO A SPANISH–SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATIONAL SERVICE ROBOTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={585-588},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002722605850588},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - INTEGRATING POINTING GESTURES INTO A SPANISH–SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM FOR CONVERSATIONAL SERVICE ROBOTS
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Avilés H.
AU - Meza I.
AU - Aguilar W.
AU - Pineda L.
PY - 2010
SP - 585
EP - 588
DO - 10.5220/0002722605850588