Study of starting conversation system by observing a person’s curiosity to a robot

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The ability of starting conversation is important for a robot which lives with a person. We developed the conversation control system that a robot can start talking to a person by observing a person’s curiosity to a robot based on vision, audition and tactile sense and the memory of the person. We implemented our system into a communication robot Pepper and evaluated the system on its usability in a science museum. This study contributes to establishing the framework of a robot system towards a long-term interaction by focusing on the current and past occasion of a person.