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The applicability of gricean maxims in social robotics polite dialogue

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Human-robot interaction is the distinctive feature of social robotics; with the increasing pervasiveness of the social robots in our everyday lives, efforts should be made to improve the interaction. This study explores how Gricean conversational maxims on politeness can be implemented to develop polite dialogue in social robotics, catering to the preferences of the user. Though results are preliminary, the maxims have shown to be promising guidelines in the development of dialogue. The study concludes by suggesting how end-user tests can be used to verify the applicability of these maxims.

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      HRI '11: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
      March 2011
      526 pages
      ISBN:9781450305617
      DOI:10.1145/1957656

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