TY - JOUR
T1 - CoZ
T2 - A crowd-powered system for social robotics
AU - Abbas, Tahir
AU - Khan, Vassilis Javed
AU - Markopoulos, Panos
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - We present Crowd of Oz (CoZ) — a crowd-powered system to enable a real-time dialogue between Softbank's Pepper robot and a user through a synchronous group of workers. We achieve this by: (1) providing media-rich interfaces and the underlying architecture to assist workers to contextualize the conversation; and (2) proposing and implementing the Pavilion algorithm, which ensures that the required number of workers are engaged. We have demonstrated in a lab setting that through CoZ, we can leverage crowdsourcing to drive the Pepper robot in a conversation on two topics: managing study-related stress and planning a holiday. Our preliminary results indicate that the crowd's input is both meaningful and fast enough to hold a conversation.
AB - We present Crowd of Oz (CoZ) — a crowd-powered system to enable a real-time dialogue between Softbank's Pepper robot and a user through a synchronous group of workers. We achieve this by: (1) providing media-rich interfaces and the underlying architecture to assist workers to contextualize the conversation; and (2) proposing and implementing the Pavilion algorithm, which ensures that the required number of workers are engaged. We have demonstrated in a lab setting that through CoZ, we can leverage crowdsourcing to drive the Pepper robot in a conversation on two topics: managing study-related stress and planning a holiday. Our preliminary results indicate that the crowd's input is both meaningful and fast enough to hold a conversation.
KW - Crowd-powered systems
KW - Real-time human computation
KW - Remote teleoperation
KW - Social robotics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85079349902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100421
DO - 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100421
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079349902
SN - 2352-7110
VL - 11
JO - SoftwareX
JF - SoftwareX
M1 - 100421
ER -