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Social robots as mediators between users and smart environments

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In this paper we propose the use of a social robot as mediator between the user and a smart environment. Since the speech is considered one of the more natural and immediate input channel in human-robot interaction we discuss the importance of recognizing both the linguistic content of the spoken sentence and the valence of the user tone of voice in order to infer properly the user's intent in communication during the interaction.

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    IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
    January 2007
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