Talking-Ally: What is the future of robot´s utterance generation?

It is still an enormous challenge within the HRI community to make a significant contribution to the development of a robot´s utterance generation mechanism. How does one actually go about contributing and predicting the future of robot utterance generation? Since, our motivation to propose a robot´s utterance generation approach by utilizing both addressivity and hearership. Novel platform of Talking-Ally is capable of producing an utterance (toward addressivity) by utilizing the state of the hearer´s behaviors (eye-gaze information) to persuade the user (states of hearership) through dynamic interaction. Moreover, the robot has the potential to manipulate modality, turn-initial, and entrust behaviors to increase the liveliness of conversations, which are facilitated by shifting the direction of the conversation and maintaining the hearer´s engagement in the conversation. Our experiment focuses on evaluating how interactive users engage with an utterance generation approach (performance) and the persuasive power of robot´s communication within dynamic interactions.