Study of the Importance of Adequacy to Robot Verbal and Non Verbal Communication in Human-Robot interaction

The Robadom project aims at creating a homecare robot that help and assist people in their daily life, either in doing task for the human or in managing day organization. A robot could have this kind of role only if it is accepted by humans. Before thinking about the ro- bot appearance, we decided to evaluate the importance of the relation between verbal and nonverbal communica- tion during a human-robot interaction in order to de- termine the situation where the robot is accepted. We realized two experiments in order to study this accept- ance. The first experiment studied the importance of hav- ing robot nonverbal behavior in relation of its verbal be- havior. The second experiment studied the capability of a robot to provide a correct human-robot interaction.

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