Towards an Interaction Architecture for the iCub Robot: Social Gaze Space Model Adaptation for Social Interaction
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Abstract
Gaze behaviour plays a crucial role in social interactions extending to Human-Robot Interactions. Humanoid robots equipped with anthropomorphic vision systems may be expected to employ natural gaze behaviour in interactions with humans. Here, we implemented a novel first-person human gaze state detection tool on the iCub robot and assessed its gaze detection accuracy. Using this tool, we then developed two social gaze interaction architectures for the iCub robot. The Social Gaze Space theory (SGS) of Jording and colleagues was the theoretical framework for building our first architecture, SGS Base (SGS-B). Our second architecture, SGS Interaction Architecture (SGS-IA), is the extended version of SGS Base that lets the robot take on different higher-level goals in an interaction, including being attentive to the interaction partner or attempting to direct their attention to an object. These architectures support dyadic social interactions involving initiating and responding to joint attention towards objects of interest, and are expected to allow the robot to interact in a more human-like manner in social interactions. The gaze detection accuracy of the iCub robot equipped with our choice of algorithms exceeded that of previously implemented methods. System validation trials confirmed that the robot detects the social gaze states correctly in the majority of the instances, allowing for behavioural control according to the Social Gaze Space theory. Validation tests presented in this article demonstrate the functionality of the SGS Interaction Architecture and also highlight the differences in personal interaction dynamics when the humanoid robot has no particular goals as opposed to when it has interactional goals appropriate to a teaching scenario.
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