Conversational Agents and Robot Interaction

Kristiina Jokinen

Abstract: The paper concerns conversational interaction for social robots and presents work on combining conversational AI technology and humanoid robot agents. It contributes to designing human-robot interaction with the help of state-of-the-art conversational modelling techniques and discusses issues related to spoken dialogues, social interaction, and context-awareness. The paper explores the use of knowledge graphs in dialogue modelling with the goal of developing interactive robot applications with natural dialogue capabilities. The work thus supports the design of social robot applications where robot agents have capabilities for a more symbiotic relationship with humans.