Abstract-Valerie the Roboceptionist is the most recent addition to Carnegie Mellon's Social Robots Project. A permanent installation in the entranceway to Newell-Simon Hall, the robot combines useful functionality-giving directions, looking up weather forecasts, etc.-with an interesting and compelling character. We are using Valerie to investigate human-robot social interaction, especially long-term human-robot "relationships." Over a nine-month period, we have found that many visitors continue to interact with the robot on a daily basis, but that few of the individual interactions last for more than 30 seconds. Our analysis of the data has indicated several design decisions that should facilitate more natural human-robot interactions.
Gockley et al. REF designed a robot receptionist named Valerie to investigate humanrobot social interaction and found that after nine months of deployment, people still interacted with the robot on a daily basis.
Designing robots for long-term social interaction
2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Computer Science