Turn-Taking in Human-Robot Interactions: a Developmental Robotics Approach

Project Information

TURNTAKE

Grant agreement ID: 301155

Project closed

Start date 1 October 2012

End date 30 September 2014

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 208 672,40

EU contribution € 208 672,40

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO
Portugal

Objective

This project’s main goal is to advance the field of human-robot interaction, specifically with robots that can adjust to natural interaction rhythms, while engaged on a joint task. Robots capable of open-ended and engaging interactions are useful: as learners, with humans as instructors (e.g. by demonstration, by imitation), as teachers, and as assistants of the elderly, or disabled. Mounting evidence shows that seamless timing of turn-taking–and the capability for dynamic control of a turn-taking rhythm–is associated with perceived quality and learning outcomes, in adult-adult, and in human-robot social exchanges. Moreover, in infancy, turn-taking dynamics predict emotional, social, and cognitive developmental outcomes.

The workplan proposes a novel 2-step developmental approach: (1) study developmental changes in turn-taking dynamics when children are engaged in open-ended joint play with a parent–measured with motion-capture of participants’ body movements; and (2) and apply these results to extend and test a robotic platform (ARoS) developed at the host institution.

In addition, the proposed empirical studies will have far-reaching consequences, beyond human-robot interaction design, in the social, emotional, and cognitive development fields, including clinical applications. The workplan will be supported by a novel interdisciplinary collaboration of a robotics and an experimental psychology laboratory at the host.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• social sciences › educational sciences › didactics
• social sciences › psychology
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › robotics

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IIF - International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO

• EU contribution: € 208 672,40
• Address: LARGO DO PACO ; 4704 553 Braga ; Portugal
• Region: Continente › Norte › Cávado
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data