@inproceedings{952e93e03f4e42ffbafb3170e769b0ab,
title = "eEVA as a Real-Time Multimodal Agent Human-Robot Interface",
abstract = "We posit that human-robot interfaces that integrate multimodal communication features of a 3-dimensional graphical social virtual agent with a high degree of freedom robot are highly promising. We discuss the modular agent architecture of an interactive system that integrates two frameworks (our in-house virtual social agent and robot agent framework) that enables social multimodal human-robot interaction with the Toyota{\^a}€{\texttrademark}s Human Support Robot (HSR). We demonstrate HSR greeting gestures using culturally diverse inspired motions, combined with our virtual social agent interface, and we provide the results of a pilot study designed to assess the effects of our multimodal virtual agent/robot system on users{\^a}€{\texttrademark} experience. We discuss future directions for social interaction with a virtual agent/robot system.",
keywords = "Culturally-aware robotics, Culturally-aware virtual agents, Human-robot interaction, Intelligent virtual agents, Service and social robots",
author = "P. Pe{\~A}±a and M. Polceanu and C. Lisetti and U. Visser",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-27544-0_22",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783030275433",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "262--274",
editor = "Dirk Holz and Katie Genter and Maarouf Saad and {von Stryk}, Oskar",
booktitle = "RoboCup 2018",
note = "22nd RoboCup International Competition and Symposium, RoboCup 2018 ; Conference date: 18-06-2018 Through 22-06-2018",
}