An empirical robotic framework for interacting with multiple humans

Currently work in robotics is expanding from industrial robots to robots that are employed in the living environment. For robots to be accepted into the real world, they must be capable to behave in such a way that humans do with other humans. This paper focuses on designing a robotic framework to interact with multiple humans in a natural and social ways. To evaluate the robotic framework, we conducted an experiment to perform an important social function in any conversation such as initiating interaction with the target human in multiparty setting. Results show that the proposed robotic system is functioning to initiate an interaction process in four viewing situations.