TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a conversational model for counsel robots
T2 - how different question types elicit different linguistic behaviors
AU - Choi, Sujin
AU - Lee, Hanna
AU - Lim, Yoonseob
AU - Choi, Jongsuk
AU - Sung, Jee Eun
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Program-Industrialized Technology Innovation Project (10077553, Development of Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human–Robot Interaction of Service Robots) funded By the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea).
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Program-Industrialized Technology Innovation Project (10077553, Development of Social Robot Intelligence for Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots) funded By the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - In recent years, robots have been playing the role of counselor or conversational partner in everyday dialogues and interactions with humans. For successful human–robot communication, it is very important to identify the best conversational strategies that can influence the responses of the human client in human–robot interactions. The purpose of the present study is to examine linguistic behaviors in human–human conversation using chatting data to provide the best model for effective conversation in human–robot interaction. We analyzed conversational data by categorizing them into question types, namely Wh-questions and “yes” or “no” (YN) questions, and their correspondent linguistic behaviors (self-disclosure elicitation, self-disclosure, simple “yes” or “no” answers, and acknowledgment). We also compared the utterance length of clients depending on the question type. In terms of linguistic behaviors, the results reveal that the Wh-question type elicited significantly higher rates of self-disclosure elicitation and acknowledgment than YN-questions. Among the Wh-subtype, how was found to promote more linguistic behaviors such as self-disclosure elicitation, self-disclosure, and acknowledgment than other Wh-subtypes. On the other hand, YN-questions generated significantly higher rates of simple “yes” or “no” answers compared to the Wh-question. In addition, Wh-question type elicited longer utterance than the YN-question type. We suggested that the type of questions of the robot counselor must be considered to elicit various linguistic behaviors and utterances of humans. Our research is meaningful in providing efficient conversation strategies for robot utterances that conform to humans’ linguistic behaviors.
AB - In recent years, robots have been playing the role of counselor or conversational partner in everyday dialogues and interactions with humans. For successful human–robot communication, it is very important to identify the best conversational strategies that can influence the responses of the human client in human–robot interactions. The purpose of the present study is to examine linguistic behaviors in human–human conversation using chatting data to provide the best model for effective conversation in human–robot interaction. We analyzed conversational data by categorizing them into question types, namely Wh-questions and “yes” or “no” (YN) questions, and their correspondent linguistic behaviors (self-disclosure elicitation, self-disclosure, simple “yes” or “no” answers, and acknowledgment). We also compared the utterance length of clients depending on the question type. In terms of linguistic behaviors, the results reveal that the Wh-question type elicited significantly higher rates of self-disclosure elicitation and acknowledgment than YN-questions. Among the Wh-subtype, how was found to promote more linguistic behaviors such as self-disclosure elicitation, self-disclosure, and acknowledgment than other Wh-subtypes. On the other hand, YN-questions generated significantly higher rates of simple “yes” or “no” answers compared to the Wh-question. In addition, Wh-question type elicited longer utterance than the YN-question type. We suggested that the type of questions of the robot counselor must be considered to elicit various linguistic behaviors and utterances of humans. Our research is meaningful in providing efficient conversation strategies for robot utterances that conform to humans’ linguistic behaviors.
KW - Conversational strategy
KW - Human–robot dialogue model
KW - Linguistic behavior
KW - Question type
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U2 - 10.1007/s11370-021-00375-6
DO - 10.1007/s11370-021-00375-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111122364
VL - 14
SP - 373
EP - 385
JO - Intelligent Service Robotics
JF - Intelligent Service Robotics
SN - 1861-2776
IS - 3
ER -