{"id":137721,"date":"2022-04-05T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-new-approach-that-could-improve-how-robots-interact-in-conversational-groups"},"modified":"2022-04-05T01:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:02:18","slug":"a-new-approach-that-could-improve-how-robots-interact-in-conversational-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/a-new-approach-that-could-improve-how-robots-interact-in-conversational-groups","title":{"rendered":"A new approach that could improve how robots interact in conversational groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VWx9-Ss1kFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To effectively interact with humans in crowded social settings, such as malls, hospitals, and other public spaces, robots should be able to actively participate in both group and one-to-one interactions. Most existing robots, however, have been found to perform much better when communicating with individual users than with groups of conversing humans.<\/p>\n<p>Hooman Hedayati and Daniel Szafir, two researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have recently developed a new data-driven technique that could improve how robots communicate with groups of humans. This method, presented in a paper presented at the 2022 ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI \u201822), allows robots to predict the positions of humans in conversational groups, so that they do not mistakenly ignore a person when their sensors are fully or partly obstructed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in a conversational group is easy for humans but challenging for robots,\u201d Hooman Hedayati, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. \u201cImagine that you are talking with a group of friends, and whenever one of your friends blinks, she stops talking and asks if you are still there. This potentially annoying scenario is roughly what can happen when a robot is in conversational groups.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To effectively interact with humans in crowded social settings, such as malls, hospitals, and other public spaces, robots should be able to actively participate in both group and one-to-one interactions. Most existing robots, however, have been found to perform much better when communicating with individual users than with groups of conversing humans. Hooman Hedayati and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}