Realization of natural interaction dialogs in public environments using the humanoid robot ROMAN

The ability of humanoid robots to perform naturally with multi-modal dialogs in an unmodified environment is very limited. Although various solutions for sub-problems of interaction like tracking or speech recognition exist, it is obviously a great challenge to integrate all the requirements into one common platform. This paper presents experiments with the humanoid robot, ROMAN, performed in an unchanged environment with public access. A short dialog with interaction possibilities is chosen and the experimental results are described.