Embodiment in Dialogue: Daily Dialogue Android Based on Multimodal Information

Abstract

The research and development of robots that can have daily dialogues autonomously with humans have become increasingly important. Most of them, however, have been limited to studies on speech recognition and interfaces. As the result, they still cannot build relationships with humans through long-term daily dialogue. In this background, we have developed a robot that can understand human relationships with their intentions and desires, and can interact with them in human-like ways through various modalities. In this chapter, we first describe an android platform for multimodal interaction based on intentions and desires. Here, both the user’s and the robot’s subjective preferences and opinions are essential. Then, we introduce a function to model the user’s preference, which is necessary for building human relationships. We also discuss the relationship between dialogue and the opinions that can be attributed to the android considering its embodiment. Finally, based on the above studies, we discuss the embodiment in dialogue and future work.