METHOD OF PERFORMING MULTI-MODAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN A HUMANOID ROBOT AND USER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND HUMANOID ROBOT FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID METHOD

摘要

A method of performing dialogue between a humanoid robot and user comprises: i) acquiring input signals from respective sensors, at least one being a sound sensor and another being a motion or image sensor; ii) interpreting the signals to recognize events generated by the user, including: the utterance of a word or sentence, an intonation of voice, a gesture, a body posture, a facial expression; iii) determining a response of the humanoid robot, comprising an event such as: the utterance of a word or sentence, an intonation of voice, a gesture, a body posture, a facial expression; iv) generating, an event by the humanoid robot; wherein step iii) comprises determining the response from events jointly generated by the user and recognized at step ii), of which at least one is not words uttered by the user. A computer program product and humanoid robot for carrying out the method is provided.