Waki Kamino

Hey Haru, Let's Be Friends! Using the Tiers of Friendship to Build Rapport through Small Talk with the Tabletop Robot Haru

Conversation can play an essential role in forging bonds between humans and social robots, but participants need to feel like they are being listened to, remembered, and cared about in order to effectively build rapport. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for conducting small talk with a soc…