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1	Timing multimodal turn-taking in human-robot cooperative activity Chao, Crystal 27 May 2016 (has links) Turn-taking is a fundamental process that governs social interaction. When humans interact, they naturally take initiative and relinquish control to each other using verbal and nonverbal behavior in a coordinated manner. In contrast, existing approaches for controlling a robot's social behavior do not explicitly model turn-taking, resulting in interaction breakdowns that confuse or frustrate the human and detract from the dyad's cooperative goals. They also lack generality, relying on scripted behavior control that must be designed for each new domain. This thesis seeks to enable robots to cooperate fluently with humans by automatically controlling the timing of multimodal turn-taking. Based on our empirical studies of interaction phenomena, we develop a computational turn-taking model that accounts for multimodal information flow and resource usage in interaction. This model is implemented within a novel behavior generation architecture called CADENCE, the Control Architecture for the Dynamics of Embodied Natural Coordination and Engagement, that controls a robot's speech, gesture, gaze, and manipulation. CADENCE controls turn-taking using a timed Petri net (TPN) representation that integrates resource exchange, interruptible modality execution, and modeling of the human user. We demonstrate progressive developments of CADENCE through multiple domains of autonomous interaction encompassing situated dialogue and collaborative manipulation. We also iteratively evaluate improvements in the system using quantitative metrics of task success, fluency, and balance of control. Turn-taking Situated dialogue Collaborative discourse Collaborative manipulation Multimodal interaction Situated dialogue Collaborative discourse Collaborative manipulation Multimodal interaction Social interaction Situated dialogue Collaborative discourse Collaborative manipulation Multimodal interaction Social interaction Human-robot collaboration Human-robot interaction Embodied conversational agents Behavior architectures Timed Petri nets Artificial intelligence Autonomous systems

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Timing multimodal turn-taking in human-robot cooperative activity