Acoustical implicit communication in human-robot interaction

Explicit communication addresses the use of distinct language or protocol to convey the idea. Implicit communication helps to compensate many hidden meanings omitted from the explicit language. In some situations, implicit communication may even take the place of explicit communication. For the autonomous robot, implicit communication provides an alternative way to interact with people. This paper introduces the acoustic techniques for implicit communication in human-robot interaction, and the design of acoustical implicit communication based robot games.

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