Mudis

Since existing methods for human-machine interaction are often unintuitive, a lot of time is required for humans to adapt to the operation of a specific machine. In contrast, the MuDiS project aims at granting machines the ability to adapt to typical human behavior. The goal of the project is the development of a multimodal dialog system that considers various human communication channels such as facial expressions, spoken language and gestures for human-machine interaction. We perform experiments to determine the requirements for robots to interact with humans in an intuitive way. Insights gained from these human-human experiments are applied to the human-machine interface to grant robots the capability of participating in simple, every-day dialogs in various environments. To tackle this challenge, we unite researchers from diverse scientific areas, such as computer science, electrical engineering and psychology to reflect the interdisciplinary character of the project.