Example Engineering interface specifications for robot social interaction:
Channels ..................................................................................Multi-modal
- Language (Words) and Paralanguage, Prosody (Vocal Cues)
- Proxemics (Orientation, Relative Position, Attentional Zone, Posture)
- Kinesics (Gesture)
- Gaze (Direction, Blink Rate, Pupilometry)
- Facial Expression (Types, Micro-expression)
Signals .........................................................Verbal,Non-Verbal,Combined
- Position Change, Posture, Nodding, Pointing, Eye Contact, Word Choice, ...many more, frequently in combination
Protocols .....................................Timing, Sequence,Variation, Composites
- Movement (Somatics, Laban, Kestenberg Movement Profiles)
- Signal variations (Frequency, Duration, Speed, Amplitude, Symmetry …)
- Signal compositions (Type, Sequence, Channel …)
- Coordinated interaction (e.g., Turns, Deference, Attentiveness)