Talking ally: Toward persuasive communication in everyday life

Abstract

Exploiting a social intelligent agent (robot) for the embodiment of communication and interaction in a social and engaging manner is more exceptionally challenging than developing the basic capabilities of embedded robots (moving and acting). A robot should mainly have the capability of executing its communication capabilities within a social manner that is sufficient for establishing interaction with humans. The field of social robotics is mainly concerned with exploring desirable conventions embedded in social robots, which must contemplate and incorporate non-verbal communication. As such, we are developing a social robot (Talking-Ally) that is capable of liking the state of the person (addressee) through an utterance-generation mechanism (addressivity) that refers to the hearer's resources (hearership) in order to persuade the user through dynamic interactions. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.