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Spatial Language for Human–Robot Dialogs
Abstract
In conversation, people often use spatial relationships to describe their environment, e.g., "There is a desk in front of me and a doorway behind it," and to issue directives, e.g., "go around the desk and through the doorway." In our research, we have been investigating the use of spatial relationships to establish a natural communication mechanism between people and robots, in particular, for novice users. In this paper, the work on robot spatial relationships is combined with a multimodal robot interface. We show how linguistic spatial descriptions and other spatial information can be extracted from an evidence grid map and how this information can be used in a natural, human-robot dialog. Examples using spatial language are included for both robot-to-human feedback and also human-to-robot commands. We also discuss some linguistic consequences in the semantic representations of spatial and locative information based on this work.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Skubic, M., Perzanowski, D., Blisard, S., Schultz, A., Adams, W., Bugajska, M., & Brock, D.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C (Applications and Reviews)
- Published
- 2004-05
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 154-167
- ISSN
- 1094-6977 (ISSN-L)
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- W2107537133
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- 216
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 13.56
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- closed
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