Explainable Representations of the Social State: A Model for Social Human-Robot Interactions

Hernandez Garcia, Daniel; Yu, Yanchao; Sieinska, Weronika; Part, Jose L.; Gunson, Nancie; Lemon, Oliver; Dondrup, Christian

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a minimum set of concepts and signals needed to track the social state during Human-Robot Interaction. We look into the problem of complex continuous interactions in a social context with multiple humans and robots, and discuss the creation of an explainable and tractable representation/model of their social interaction. We discuss these representations according to their representational and communicational properties, and organize them into four cognitive domains (scene-understanding, behaviour-profiling, mental-state, and dialogue-grounding).

• Working Paper Type: Preprint
• Publication Date: Oct 9, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 28, 2023
• Related Public URLs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.04570.pdf