The goal of this project is to enable robots to support creative designs of human interactants in manipulation tasks through dialogue in a mixed-initiative manner. We investigated the effect of robot dialogues on user experience and satisfaction in a creative cake decoration task and evaluated the effects of different modes of agent initiative on perceived robot utility, intelligence, and supportiveness. Participants reported significantly better satisfaction and experience with the robot that made reasonable suggestions for item placements compared to robots with random suggestions or no suggestions at all.
@inproceedings{luetal24icsr,
title={Towards Human-Robot Co-Creative Collaboration Through Interactive Task Dialogue},
author={Hong Lu and Jingwen Feng and Emma Bethel and Vasanth Sarathy and Elaine Short and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2024},
booktitle={Proceedings of ICSR},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/luetal24icsr.pdf}
}