Publication
Analysis of the Responses to System-Initiated Off-Activity Talk in Human-Robot Interaction with Diabetic Children
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová; Elettra Oleari; Clara Pozzi; Stefania Racioppa; Bernd Kiefer
In: Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL-2014), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Pages 90-97, Heriot Watt University, 2014.
Abstract
We carried out an exploratory WOZ study with
a conversational human-robot interaction system
which offers a set of activities aimed to help a child
to improve its capability to manage diabetes. The
novel aspect is the inclusion of robot-initiated off-
activity talk ( OAT ) on diabetes- and health-related
topics. We present an analysis of the OAT
subdialogues: their distribution, the prompts, children’s responses, engagement. Children generally
engaged well. They sometimes also reciprocated
the robot’s topics and even took initiative with new
ones. On the other hand, we observed a decline
in children’s engagement as the interactions progressed. We attribute this mostly to the delays in
system response, due to the WOZ setup