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Interaction Capabilities of a Robotic Receptionist

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Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2017 (KES-IIMSS-18 2018)

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 76))

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A system aimed at facilitating the interaction between a human user and an humanoid robot is presented. The system is suited to answer questions about laboratories activities, people involved, projects, research themes and collaborations among employees. The task is accomplished by the HermiT reasoner invoked by a speech recognition module. The system is capable of navigating a specific ontology making inference on it. The presented system is part of a broader social robot framework whose goal is to give the user a fulfilling social interaction experience, driven by the perception of the robot internal state and involving intuitive and computational creativity capabilities.

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  1. ICAR-CNR, Italian National Research Council Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90145, Palermo, Italy

    Carlo Nuccio, Agnese Augello, Salvatore Gaglio & Giovanni Pilato

  2. DICGIM, University of Palermo, Viale Delle Scienze Building 6, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Carlo Nuccio & Salvatore Gaglio

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  1. National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ICAR), Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking, Naples, Italy

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Nuccio, C., Augello, A., Gaglio, S., Pilato, G. (2018). Interaction Capabilities of a Robotic Receptionist. In: De Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2017. KES-IIMSS-18 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 76. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_18

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