A multi-party attentive listening robot which stimulates involvement from side participants
Koji Inoue, Hiromi Sakamoto, Kenta Yamamoto, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara · 2021
We demonstrate the moderating abilities of a multi-party attentive listening robot system when multiple people are speaking in turns.Our conventional one-on-one attentive listening system generates listener responses such as backchannels, repeats, elaborating questions, and assessments.In this paper, additional robot responses that stimulate a listening user (side participant) to become more involved in the dialogue are proposed.The additional responses elicit assessments and questions from the side participant, making the dialogue more empathetic and lively.