Improve Receptionist

[LeroyR]

Is your idea/suggestion related to a problem? Please describe.

Something about receptionist..

The median score is high -> the task is solved
Task is very static. e.g.

• The Robots are telling the person where to stand instead of looking at them dynamically
• The introduction/getting to know name and drink is also very predictable, boring and 'hardcoded'
  We do not have any pose/gesture recognition

Describe the solution you'd like

• Keep/ReIntroduce Subjective Interaction scoring (survey)? -> some 'interesting' interaction has to happen
• Have multiple people around/front of the robot
  • The robot has to recognize the speaking person (sound source or moving lips?) to score eye contact points
• Reward completion -> add one more guest and reduce scores?
  • The robot could handle introduction during guidance to save time
• The 2nd guests could point at one of the persons and ask the robot for name/drink of that person
• Smalltalk during guidance: I don't want to be guided to the seating area in silence somehow reward doing 'smalltalk'.
  • Add points for stating some trivia about the person which has to be obtained by talking. (job/time of arrival/country of origin etc)

[johaq]

No survey. Just too time and work intensive to do while the test runs. Only thing I see as doable would a couple of yes or no questions, but that's not really a survey anymore then.

Personally I really like the proposed sound source localization aspect because it is not really a part of any of the tests anymore.
I would remove the host from the scenario at least for the introductions. It does not make sense to introduce a guest to the host, they should know their guests. Maybe have the host still sit there as a distraction but introductions need to be made between guests only. Then introductions need to be made more closely, i.e. approaching the first guest and introducing the second guest to them.

[SparkRibeiro21]

Some suggestions:

• Add showing the guest where the drinks are, and offer a drink to the guest (if stickler is removed than this may be an option) since time is so limited maybe exceptionally just for this task put the drinks on a furniture on the way to the living room. Or have the robot go get a drink after sitting the guest.
• The door opening points are VERY misadjusted. Opening the door is much more complex than opening the cabinet door in storing groceries, and teams get 200 points for the cabinet door and 100 points for the entrance door. In the entrance door you have to identify the handle, pull down the handle, pull the door, ... whereas the cabinet door is much simpler. I believe no team even tries to attempt this (even though a couple of teams showed in their qualification videos from last year they could open doors), means that the number of points doesn't compensate the risk that is attempting to open the door.
• Add hearing more information from each guest (currently we are doing name and drink, maybe add food, or interests in general such as: sports, cooking, ... (i think adding interests would be nice but we should not have a list of possible answers like we have for the names and drinks, make it broad enough so that it can not be hard coded to be one of the options)

[hawkina]

Some suggestions:

* Add showing the guest where the drinks are, and offer a drink to the guest (if stickler is removed than this may be an option) since time is so limited maybe exceptionally just for this task put the drinks on a furniture on the way to the living room. Or have the robot go get a drink after sitting the guest.

I like the robot showing the guest where the drinks are, before it leads the guest into the living room. I would however do not require the robot to pick up the drink and hand it to the guest, it could be enough to just offer the drinks by guiding the guest to them and saying what is available. I would give bonus points though if someone tries to pick up + handover

* The door opening points are **VERY** misadjusted. Opening the door is much more complex than opening the cabinet door in storing groceries, and teams get 200 points for the cabinet door and 100 points for the entrance door. In the entrance door you have to identify the handle, pull down the handle, pull the door, ... whereas the cabinet door is much simpler. I believe no team even tries to attempt this (even though a couple of teams showed in their qualification videos from last year they could open doors), means that the number of points doesn't compensate the risk that is attempting to open the door.

ok we should change this

* Add hearing more information from each guest (currently we are doing name and drink, maybe add food, or interests in general such as: sports, cooking, ... (i think adding interests would be nice but we should not have a list of possible answers like we have for the names and drinks, make it broad enough so that it can not be hard coded to be one of the options)

This could be really cool! Bonus points for if the robot manages to match guests by their interest. E.g. mention during introduction that both people like the same sport or similar.

[ARTenshi]

Hello,

I like these two ideas:

Have multiple people around/front of the robot

The 2nd guests could point at one of the persons and ask the robot for name/drink of that person

Another point:

The door opening points are VERY misadjusted. Opening the door is much more complex than opening the cabinet door in storing groceries, and teams get 200 points for the cabinet door and 100 points for the entrance door.

Yes, but opening the front door is a recurrent task; increasing the score would bias what happens inside the arena for teams able to open the door; we might consider those few points as a partial score considering all the chances that a team will have to open the door (almost for every test).

[sunava]

I or a student of mine will do a PR soon