Attention expression mechanism for utterance generation

Author

Imai, Michita ; Ono, Tetsuo ; Ishiguro, Hiroshi ; Anzai, Yuichiro

Author_Institution

ATR MI&C Labs., Kyoto, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper proposes an attention expression mechanism for a robot to generate utterances spontaneously. The robot must direct the attention of a person to the same real world information as the robot for the person to interpret an utterance from the robot. The attention expression mechanism exposes the robot´s focus of attention by turning its head towards the target of attention. In particular, the mechanism exposes the attention of the robot to the person, as well as real world information for the person to develop joint attention. In addition, we introduce an utterance generation mechanism named Linta-III, which was developed with the attention expression mechanism

Keywords

natural language interfaces; robots; speech synthesis; Linta-III; attention expression mechanism; real world information; robot; utterance generation; Costs; Displays; Humans; Orbital robotics; Psychology; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Speech recognition; Turning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2000. RO-MAN 2000. Proceedings. 9th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6273-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2000.892460

Filename

892460