Part I : Images. My robot / Steve Mushkin -- Cultural icons / Judith Markowitz -- Android aesthetics : humanoid robots as works of art / David F. Dufty -- Part II : Frameworks and guidelines. Enabling human-robot dialogue / Bilge Mutlu, Sean Andrist, and Allison Sauppé -- Robots can talk -- but can they teach? / Fumiko Nazikian -- Comprehension, coherence and consistency : essentials of robot feedback / Nicole Mirnig and Manfred Tscheligi -- Extensible grounding of speech for robot instruction / Jonathan H. Connell -- Lies and deception : robots that use falsehood as a social strategy / Alan R. Wagner -- Robotic learning from multimodal instructions : a card game case study / Joerg C. Wolf and Guido Bugmann -- Part IV : Design. Real-time audition system for autonomous mobile robots / François Grondin and François Michaud -- The effects of design choices on human-robot interactions in children and adults / Sandra Y. Okita and Victor Ng-Thow-Hing -- From talking and listening robots to intelligent communicative machines / Roger K. Moore
Summary
The book provides a forward-looking examination of speech and language in robots from technical, functional, and social perspectives. Contributors address cultural foundations as well as the linguistic skills and technical features robots need for engaging in a dialogue
