A Preliminary Framework for a Social Robot “Sixth Sense”

• Published in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems pp. 58 - 70
• Main Authors: Cominelli, Lorenzo, Mazzei, Daniele, Carbonaro, Nicola, Garofalo, Roberto, Zaraki, Abolfazl, Tognetti, Alessandro, De Rossi, Danilo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Affective computing; Behaviour monitoring; Human-Robot Interaction; Social robotics; Synthetic tutor

Building a social robot that is able to interact naturally with people is a challenging task that becomes even more ambitious if the robots’ interlocutors are children involved in crowded scenarios like a classroom or a museum. In such scenarios, the main concern is enabling the robot to track the s...