TURNTAKE

Turn-Taking in Human-Robot Interactions: a Developmental Robotics Approach

Coordinatore	UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO    more  Organization address address: Largo do Paco city: BRAGA postcode: 4704553 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Vasco Cognome: Teixeira Email: send email Telefono: 351254000000 Fax: 351254000000
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Portugal [PT]
Totale costo	208˙672 €
EC contributo	208˙672 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IIF
Funding Scheme	MC-IIF
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-10-01   -   2014-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO  Organization address address: Largo do Paco city: BRAGA postcode: 4704553 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Vasco Cognome: Teixeira Email: send email Telefono: 351254000000 Fax: 351254000000	PT (BRAGA)	coordinator	208˙672.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project’s main goal is to advance the field of human-robot interaction, specifically with robots that can adjust to natural interaction rhythms, while engaged on a joint task. Robots capable of open-ended and engaging interactions are useful: as learners, with humans as instructors (e.g. by demonstration, by imitation), as teachers, and as assistants of the elderly, or disabled. Mounting evidence shows that seamless timing of turn-taking–and the capability for dynamic control of a turn-taking rhythm–is associated with perceived quality and learning outcomes, in adult-adult, and in human-robot social exchanges. Moreover, in infancy, turn-taking dynamics predict emotional, social, and cognitive developmental outcomes.

The workplan proposes a novel 2-step developmental approach: (1) study developmental changes in turn-taking dynamics when children are engaged in open-ended joint play with a parent–measured with motion-capture of participants’ body movements; and (2) and apply these results to extend and test a robotic platform (ARoS) developed at the host institution.

In addition, the proposed empirical studies will have far-reaching consequences, beyond human-robot interaction design, in the social, emotional, and cognitive development fields, including clinical applications. The workplan will be supported by a novel interdisciplinary collaboration of a robotics and an experimental psychology laboratory at the host.'