A Model for Synthesizing a Combined Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior Based on Personality Traits in Human-Robot Interaction

Amir Aly (1) , Adriana Tapus (2)

1 RV - Robotique et Vision
2 U2IS - Unité d'Informatique et d'Ingénierie des Systèmes

In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios, an intelligent robot should be able to synthesize an appropriate behavior adapted to human profile (i.e., personality). Recent research studies discussed the effect of personality traits on human verbal and nonverbal behaviors. The dynamic characteristics of the generated gestures and postures during the nonverbal communication can differ according to personality traits, which similarly can influence the verbal content of human speech. This research tries to map human verbal behavior to a corresponding verbal and nonverbal combined robot behavior based on the extraversion-introversion personality dimension. We explore the human-robot personality matching aspect and the similarity attraction principle, in addition to the different effects of the adapted combined robot behavior expressed through speech and gestures, and the adapted speech-only robot behavior, on interaction. Experiments with the humanoid NAO robot are reported.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Amir Aly, Adriana Tapus. A Model for Synthesizing a Combined Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior Based on Personality Traits in Human-Robot Interaction. The 8th ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI), Mar 2013, Tokyo, Japan. ⟨10.1109/HRI.2013.6483606⟩. ⟨hal-01284708v2⟩