Robots as Conversational Mediators

Ekaterina Kynev, Nicolas Monet, Christophe Legras, Matthias Gallé

Abstract: We propose a system in which a humanoid robot acts as a broker of a human-robot-human conversation, with one of the robot-human communication performed remotely. The robot plays a role of a \textit{mediator}, summarizing relevant information, translating across languages or point-of-views and even censoring some information.