MAWARI: Participation Metaphor based Social Interface

Abstract

In this study, we propose a novel concept for social interaction with robots based on the multi-party conversation. The concept is defined "participation metaphor" which is utilize as novel interface in human-computer interaction and it's obligate to share the information in the seamless manner and with less effort to the conversation. To accomplish the goal, we develop a novel social interface as robotic platform of MAWARI. The interface of MAWARI is consisting of three sociable robots that design with minimal designing mechanism. It is capable of providing the information through the multi-party conversation and it's accommodating for user to get the information with less attempt to the conversation. In this paper, we discuss about our concept and system architecture, and finally discuss the experimental results to discover how MAWARI-based interface is capable to establish smooth and comfortable multi-party conversation to obtain the information.