Interactive Problem-Solving with Humanoid Robots and Non-Expert Users

Duygun Erol Barkana, Mattias Wahde, Minerva Suvanto

2025

Abstract

We study conversational interaction between a humanoid (NAO) robot and a human user, using a glass-box dialogue manager (DAISY). The aim is to investigate how such an interaction can be organized in order for a non-expert user to be able to interact with the robot in a meaningful way, in this case solving a scheduling task. We compare two kinds of experiments, those that involve the NAO robot and the dialogue manager, and those that involve only the dialogue manager. Our findings show a rather clear preference for the setup involving the robot. Moreover, we study the level of linguistic variability in task-oriented human-machine interaction, and find that, at least in the case considered here, most dialogues can be handled well using a small number of patterns (for matching user input) in the agent.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Erol Barkana D., Wahde M. and Suvanto M. (2025). Interactive Problem-Solving with Humanoid Robots and Non-Expert Users. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: IAI; ISBN 978-989-758-737-5, SciTePress, pages 870-879. DOI: 10.5220/0013369000003890

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iai25,
author={Duygun Erol Barkana and Mattias Wahde and Minerva Suvanto},
title={Interactive Problem-Solving with Humanoid Robots and Non-Expert Users},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: IAI},
year={2025},
pages={870-879},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013369000003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: IAI
TI - Interactive Problem-Solving with Humanoid Robots and Non-Expert Users
SN - 978-989-758-737-5
AU - Erol Barkana D.
AU - Wahde M.
AU - Suvanto M.
PY - 2025
SP - 870
EP - 879
DO - 10.5220/0013369000003890
PB - SciTePress