Deep Level Situation Understanding and its Application to Casual Communication between Robots and Humans

Yongkang Tang, Fangyan Dong, Mina Yuhki, Yoichi Yamazaki, Takanori Shibata, Kaoru Hirota

2013

Abstract

The concept of Deep Level Situation Understanding is proposed to realize human-like natural communication among agents (e.g., humans and robots/machines), where it consists of surface level understanding (such as gesture/posture recognition, facial expression recognition, and speech/voice recognition), emotion understanding, intention understanding, and atmosphere understanding by applying customised knowledge of each agent and by taking considerations to careful attentions. It aims to not impose burden on humans in human-machine communication, to realize harmonious communication by excluding unnecessary troubles or misunderstandings among agents, and finally to create a peaceful, happy, and prosperous humans-robots society. A scenario is established to demonstrate several communication activities between a businessman and a secretary-robot/a human-boss/a waitress-robot/a human-partner/a therapy-robot (PARO) in one day.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tang Y., Dong F., Yuhki M., Yamazaki Y., Shibata T. and Hirota K. (2013). Deep Level Situation Understanding and its Application to Casual Communication between Robots and Humans . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-71-6, pages 292-299. DOI: 10.5220/0004480402920299

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco13,
author={Yongkang Tang and Fangyan Dong and Mina Yuhki and Yoichi Yamazaki and Takanori Shibata and Kaoru Hirota},
title={Deep Level Situation Understanding and its Application to Casual Communication between Robots and Humans},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={292-299},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004480402920299},
isbn={978-989-8565-71-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Deep Level Situation Understanding and its Application to Casual Communication between Robots and Humans
SN - 978-989-8565-71-6
AU - Tang Y.
AU - Dong F.
AU - Yuhki M.
AU - Yamazaki Y.
AU - Shibata T.
AU - Hirota K.
PY - 2013
SP - 292
EP - 299
DO - 10.5220/0004480402920299