Presentation 2016-09-20
A TV Chat Robot with a Natural Conversation by Time Shifting
Masato Kozaki, Shogo Nishimura, Hiromichi Kawanami, Masayuki Kambara, Norihiro Hagita,
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Abstract(in English) This paper proposes a communicative robot that facilitates talk with a user who lacks a chance of verbal communication with others for any reasons (e.g. the elderly who live alone). As our first trial, we have developed a system which is designed to support a user to talk while watching a TV program. To achieve natural response timing, the proposed system includes three response functions: backchannel, repetition and machine answering. In this paper, in order to realize a natural communication with a robot, the proposed system overcomes the problems which are delay of robot utterance generated by SNS comments and overlap of utterances by time sifting function.
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Keyword(in English) Speech dialog system / Interactive robot / Time shifting / Natural conversation
Paper # CNR2016-11
Date of Issue 2016-09-13 (CNR)

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Committee CNR
Conference Date 2016/9/20(1days)
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Place (in English) Sanjo conference hall, The University of Tokyo
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Chair Michita Imai(Keio Univ.)
Vice Chair Tetsuo Ono(Hokkaido Univ.) / Masayuki Kanbara(NAIST)
Secretary Tetsuo Ono(Univ. of Tokyo) / Masayuki Kanbara(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Assistant Kosuke Yoshioka(Panasonic) / Daisuke Yamamoto(Toshiba) / Takahiro Matsumoto(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Cloud Network Robotics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A TV Chat Robot with a Natural Conversation by Time Shifting
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Speech dialog system
Keyword(2) Interactive robot
Keyword(3) Time shifting
Keyword(4) Natural conversation
1st Author's Name Masato Kozaki
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Shogo Nishimura
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Hiromichi Kawanami
3rd Author's Affiliation National Institute of Technology, Tsuyama College(TNCT)
4th Author's Name Masayuki Kambara
4th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST)
5th Author's Name Norihiro Hagita
5th Author's Affiliation Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories(ATR)
Date 2016-09-20
Paper # CNR2016-11
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) CNR-226
Page pp.pp.21-25(CNR),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2016-09-13 (CNR)