2 papers
cs.HC2026
Learning from Success and Failure: Acquiring Adaptive Dialogue Strategies for Social Robots
Sanae Yamashita, Yuki Okafuji
Traditional dialogue systems for social robots require both dialogue strategies and user attribute recognition, each demanding specialized expertise. However, data collection is co…
cs.RO2026
Breaking the 15% Barrier: A Real-World Data-Driven System for Proactive Social Robot Triggered by User Nonverbal Cues
Yuga Yano, Yuki Okafuji, Ryo Miyoshi +2
Service robots in retail stores increasingly rely on cascaded speech pipelines (STT-LLM-TTS), yet many customer-robot interactions are initiated or guided by nonverbal behaviors su…