Demonstration of a Robo- Barista for In the Wild Interactions

Mei Yii Lim; Jose David Aguas Lopes; David A. Robb; Bruce W. Wilson; Meriam Moujahid; Helen Hastie

doi:10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889443

Demonstration of a Robo- Barista for In the Wild Interactions

Mei Yii Lim, Jose David Aguas Lopes, David A. Robb, Bruce W. Wilson, Meriam Moujahid, Helen Hastie

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Abstract

We present a demonstration of a Robo-Barista: a social robot that takes hot beverage orders through verbal interaction and completes them via a Bluetooth enabled coffee machine. The demonstration is highly robust and it is the intention that this could be installed as a permanent feature, enabling 'In the Wild' experimentation and long term studies. In the demonstration video, we show a user interacting with a Furhat robot to order a coffee. The robot has a novel architecture that allows it to exhibit both verbal and non-verbal cues, such as shared attention and chitchat. Furthermore, it is enabled with a unique tiredness detector based on visual facial features.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Place of Publication	United States
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	1200-1201
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665407311
ISBN (Print)	9781665407328
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889443
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2022
Event	17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022 - Online Duration: 7 Mar 2022 → 10 Mar 2022 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Conference

Conference	17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022
Abbreviated title	HRI'22
Period	7/03/22 → 10/03/22
Internet address	https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Human-robot interaction
in the wild experiment
robot barista
tiredness detector
trust

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UK Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hub for Offshore Energy Asset Integrity Management (ORCA)
Vijayakumar, S. (Principal Investigator), Mistry, M. (Co-investigator), Ramamoorthy, R. (Co-investigator) & Williams, C. (Co-investigator)
EPSRC
1/10/17 → 31/03/22
Project: Research

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Lim, MY, Aguas Lopes, JD, Robb, DA, Wilson, BW, Moujahid, M & Hastie, H 2022, Demonstration of a Robo- Barista for In the Wild Interactions. in 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, United States, pp. 1200-1201, 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022, 7/03/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889443

Demonstration of a Robo- Barista for In the Wild Interactions. / Lim, Mei Yii; Aguas Lopes, Jose David; Robb, David A. et al.
17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022. p. 1200-1201.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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