Evaluation of Social Robot Intelligence in Terms of Social Interactive Motion

Abstract

In order for social robots to be usably accepted by users, they need to exhibit social interaction skills in a certain degree when they encounter human even in unexpected environments, like human can do. Evaluation of Social Interaction (ESI) is one of well-defined methods to evaluate human social intelligence with 7 classes and 27 items of social interaction skills. Among them, the physically supporting social interaction(PSSI) class with 5 items are dominant to evaluate social robot intelligence, according to the occupation therapist evaluation. In this paper, focusing on the 3 items in the PSSI class, we propose an evaluation method of social robot intelligence in terms of social interactive motion, apply it to a social robot called Wendy and compare it with human social intelligence.