Social Robots
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1 min readDec 9, 2014
This is a great TED presentation by Cynthia Breazeal about social robots.
It is interesting to see the impact a robot adopting human non-verbal behaviours has on things like people’s engagement with the technology.
The question is how does the robot choose which is the appropriate response? I’m sure I can find this out.
From the video, it seems that the timing of the response isn’t too much of an issue, as Leo’s response does seem a little slow. Having said that, it is appropriate to the context. What if the interaction was in a business meeting? Would a response time that is slower than normal human responses be an issue?
On the issue of context, this is Paro:
