“Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction including Virtual Humans or Social Robots” Chaired by
Conference:
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Title:
- Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction including Virtual Humans or Social Robots
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Abstract:
This course will cover the basics of multi-modal human-machine interaction and will discuss the concept of embodied Machines represented by Virtual Humans or Social Robots. It will present the ongoing research on the Human-Man Machine Interaction and what are the problems to solve and what is still missing. Major methods of gestures recognition will be shown, such as gaze, hand and body recognition. Then the concept of awareness, intelligence will be also discussed and the way how we model the interaction with Virtual Humans or social Robots. An introduction to the personality, mood and emotions of the robot modelling will be shown and demonstrated. The multiparty interaction problems including several real users and Virtual Humans and Social Robots will be introduced. Several research case studies will be shown to illustrate the problems. Examples of a very realistic human like social robot interacting with real humans will also be shown. At the end of the course, attendees should have a clear view of the research questions and some solutions on how to model the relationship between Social robots, Virtual Humans and real persons.
Additional Information:
Intended-Audience:
People with some knowledge on multimodal interaction techniques who want to get to a broader state of the art and also a quick entry to the embodied machines (Virtual Humans and Social Robots) as extended partners of a multimodal multiparty interaction.
