Social behaviours in dog-owner interactions can serve as a model of companion robot behaviour

Faragó, Tamás and Miklósi, Ádám and Korcsok, Beáta and Száraz, Judit and Gácsi, Márta (2014) Social behaviours in dog-owner interactions can serve as a model of companion robot behaviour. Interaction Studies, 15 (2). pp. 143-172. ISSN 1572–0373

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Abstract

It is essential for social robots to fit in the human society. In order to facilitate this process we propose to use the family dog’s social behaviour shown towards humans as an inspiration. In this study we explored dogs’ low level social monitoring in dog-human interactions and extracted individually consistent and context dependent behaviours in simple everyday social scenarios. We found that proximity seeking and tail wagging were most individually distinctive in dogs, while activity, orientation towards the owner, and exploration were dependent on the context and/or the activity of the owner. The functional analogues of these dog behaviours can be implemented in social robots of different embodiments in order to make them acceptable and more believable for humans.

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