Sentiment-Based Engagement Strategies for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction

Thorsten Hempel, Laslo Dinges, Ayoub Al-Hamadi

2023

Abstract

Emotion expressions serve as important communicative signals and are crucial cues in intuitive interactions between humans. Hence, it is essential to include these fundamentals in robotic behavior strategies when interacting with humans to promote mutual understanding and to reduce misjudgements. We tackle this challenge by detecting and using the emotional state and attention for a sentiment analysis of potential human interaction partners to select well-adjusted engagement strategies. This way, we pave the way for more intuitive human-robot interactions, as the robot’s action conforms to the person’s mood and expectation. We propose four different engagement strategies with implicit and explicit communication techniques that we implement on a mobile robot platform for initial experiments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hempel T., Dinges L. and Al-Hamadi A. (2023). Sentiment-Based Engagement Strategies for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 4: VISAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-634-7, SciTePress, pages 680-686. DOI: 10.5220/0011772900003417

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp23,
author={Thorsten Hempel and Laslo Dinges and Ayoub Al-Hamadi},
title={Sentiment-Based Engagement Strategies for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 4: VISAPP},
year={2023},
pages={680-686},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011772900003417},
isbn={978-989-758-634-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2023) - Volume 4: VISAPP
TI - Sentiment-Based Engagement Strategies for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction
SN - 978-989-758-634-7
AU - Hempel T.
AU - Dinges L.
AU - Al-Hamadi A.
PY - 2023
SP - 680
EP - 686
DO - 10.5220/0011772900003417
PB - SciTePress