Objective One major challenge in robotics research is to develop robots able to operate and help humans in everyday life. Personal robots are an emerging technology with a significant potential across broad applications (eldercare, healthcare, education, etc). However, for acting in a human world, acting for, with, or in contact of humans, we need to provide the robot with the abilities not only to act but also to interact. For humans, this capacity is named social intelligence and makes us exhibit fundamental communication skills such as looking at someone who speaks to you, adapting action speed to the person we interact with, acting in synchrony, sharing knowledge about tasks state, etc. A personal robot would need to be able to deal with such social skills. We want to study this question in the particular context of joint task realization, where the robot and the human need to cooperate to achieve a task, with particular attention to figuring out when and how to use communication (verbal and non verbal) for coordination of action and maintaining common ground. This proposal’s objectives are: (a) to develop a robot knowledge database able to handle social understanding of the context (b) to study and develop robots’ (communication) social skills (c) to develop a framework to tackle human-robot joint task performance (d) to implement and demonstrate the developed framework Our idea is to give the robot the ability to (a) “have in mind” its partner’s beliefs and intentions (b) to enable it to support joint actions that include flexible and tightly intermeshed communication for establishing/re-establishing common-ground. These abilities will be integrated in a (c) framework that will tackle task realization and needed communication. This framework will be used (d) to demonstrate the system on real robots. The goal is to develop a conceptual framework that could be implemented both in the outgoing (MIT, USA) and in the return host (LAAS-CNRS, France) Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics Keywords Cognitive science Human-Robot Interaction Robotics Technological sciences 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-IOF-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-IOF-2008 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF) Coordinator CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS EU contribution € 242 632,79 Address RUE MICHEL ANGE 3 75794 Paris France See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Armelle Barelli (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
