Designing Appropriate Feedback for Virtual Agents and Robots.

Abstract

The virtual agents’ and the social robots’ communities face similar challenges when designing appropriate feedback behaviors. The paper points out some of these challenges, namely developing behaviors for various embodiments, integration and behavior generation, synchronization within systems, and coordination in groups of systems and users. We describe some (preliminary) solutions to these problems. Based on the remaining challenges we discuss future research directions that will allow the fields to profit from each other and to jointly make progress towards their aim of developing systems for social interaction with humans.