Acquiring personal keywords from a conversation for a human-robot communication

Abstract

This paper shows acquiring personal keywords and using them for human-robot communication or supporting to human-human communication. Personal keywords are feature of personality. Proposed system acquiring the keywords from a conversation. Authors developed a prototype of the keywords based communication system. First experiment acquired the keywords from the 2 trial conversations and set up the robot dialog based on the conversation. This experiment shows effectiveness of the personal keywords. Second experiment observed 60 conversations which are obtained from the first meeting elderly people. Authors analyzed the keywords which is obtained from the conversation, and found useful keywords for communication with elderly people.