FaceBots robots utilizing and publishing social information in facebook

• Published in: 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 273 - 274
• Main Authors: Mavridis, Nikolaos, Datta, Chandan, Emami, Shervin, Tanoto, Andry, BenAbdelkader, Chiraz, Rabie, Tamer
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 09.03.2009; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Computer systems organization > Embedded and cyber-physical systems > Robotics > External interfaces for robotics; Conversational Robots; Educational institutions; Face; Face recognition; Facebook; Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > HCI design and evaluation methods; Human-Robot Interaction; Humans; Real time systems; Robots; Social Robots; human-robot interaction; social robots; conversational robots
• ISBN: 1605584045; 9781605584041
• ISSN: 2167-2121
• DOI: 10.1145/1514095.1514172

Our project aims at supporting the creation of sustainable and meaningful longer-term human-robot relationships through the creation of embodied robots with face recognition and natural language dialogue capabilities, which exploit and publish social information available on the web (Facebook). Our main underlying experimental hypothesis is that such relationships can be significantly enhanced if the human and the robot are gradually creating a pool of shared episodic memories that they can co-refer to (shared memories), and if they are both embedded in a social web of other humans and robots they both know and encounter (shared friends). In this paper, we are presenting such a robot, which as we will see achieves two significant novelties.