Study on Interactive Robots with Contingent Responses

In the study of human-robot interaction, how to engage humans with robots and how to measure the engagement level are the important questions. Current study and technology achieved user habit adaptable intelligent system, whereas this technology relies heavily on the history of user behaviour and it always take a long time for the robots to make adjustments. However, this technology can hardly meet the demand from society anymore as people are expecting robots to adapt to user preferences in a shorter period. Due to the massive calculation for computer and complexity of system, research on robots with contingent response is still at early stage. Most relevant studies focus on one specific task that involves interacting with users and there is one project that focuses on finding elements that determine user behaviours. An experiment is designed to better investigate the factors that determine user engagement level.