CoZ: A crowd-powered system for social robotics

Tahir Abbas; Vassilis Javed Khan; Panos Markopoulos

doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100421

CoZ: A crowd-powered system for social robotics

Tahir Abbas (Corresponding author)
, Vassilis Javed Khan
, Panos Markopoulos

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	100421
Number of pages	7
Journal	SoftwareX
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2020.100421
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2020

Funding

This work was supported by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) in cooperation with Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST), Mirpur AJK-10250, Pakistan under grant number: 611-19/P.D/2017 .

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Mirpur University of Science and Technology
Iran University of Science and Technology	611-19/P.D/2017, AJK-10250

Keywords

Crowd-powered systems
Real-time human computation
Remote teleoperation
Social robotics

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