Achieving Interaction Fluidity in a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic System: A Prototype for Fluid Error-Correction

arXiv:2604.19374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving truly fluid interaction with robots with speech interfaces remains a hard problem, and the experience of current Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) remains laboured and frustrating. Some of the barriers to fluid interaction stem from a lack of a suitable development platform for HRI for improving interaction, even in robotic Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) modes of operation used for data collection and prototyping. Based on previous systems, we propose the properties of interruptibility and correction (IaC), pollability, latency measurement and optimisation and time-accurate reproducibility of actions from logging data as key criteria for a fluid WoZ system to support fluid error correction. We finish by presenting a Virtual Reality (VR) HRI simulation environment for mobile manipulators which meets these criteria.

Teaching Robots to Interpret Social Interactions through Lexically-guided Dynamic Graph Learning
Continuous Focus Groups: A Longitudinal Method for Clinical HRI in Autism Care
A Multimodal Data Collection Framework for Dialogue-Driven Assistive Robotics to Clarify Ambiguities: A Wizard-of-Oz Pilot Study
Perception Is All You Need: A Neuroscience Framework for Low Cost Sensorless Gaze in HRI

Source: arXiv cs.RO | 2026-04-22

Related