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Let's move on: Topic Change in Robot-Facilitated Group Discussions
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).ORCID iD: 0009-0003-0302-4905
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7130-0826
Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2212-4325
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2024 (English)In: 2024 33RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, ROMAN 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024, p. 2087-2094Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Robot-moderated group discussions have the potential to facilitate engaging and productive interactions among human participants. Previous work on topic management in conversational agents has predominantly focused on human engagement and topic personalization, with the agent having an active role in the discussion. Also, studies have shown the usefulness of including robots in groups, yet further exploration is still needed for robots to learn when to change the topic while facilitating discussions. Accordingly, our work investigates the suitability of machine-learning models and audiovisual non-verbal features in predicting appropriate topic changes. We utilized interactions between a robot moderator and human participants, which we annotated and used for extracting acoustic and body language-related features. We provide a detailed analysis of the performance of machine learning approaches using sequential and non-sequential data with different sets of features. The results indicate promising performance in classifying inappropriate topic changes, outperforming rule-based approaches. Additionally, acoustic features exhibited comparable performance and robustness compared to the complete set of multimodal features. Our annotated data is publicly available at https://github.com/ghadj/topic-change-robot-discussions-data-2024.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2024. p. 2087-2094
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IEEE RO-MAN, ISSN 1944-9445
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-358781DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731390ISI: 001348918600276Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209792264OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-358781DiVA, id: diva2:1929824
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33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN) - Embracing Human-Centered HRI, AUG 26-30, 2024, Pasadena, CA
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Part of ISBN 979-8-3503-7503-9; 979-8-3503-7502-2

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Hadjiantonis, GeorgiosGillet, SarahLeite, IolandaDogan, Fethiye Irmak

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