A comparative study between human-human interaction and human-robot interaction

Abstract

In this comparative study the concept of common ground is introduced for understanding the process of knowledge sharing by human and robot, and applied to "questioning and answering" task during object identification experiments. Various cases of human-human and human-robot interactions were performed and the interaction patterns among these groups were investigated. In comparison to Human-human interaction, the performance of robot was determined by both its expertise level as well as its human partners expertise level. This suggests that the robots intelligence alone is not sufficient to communicate with human users. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.