Theater acting and other performing arts could serve HRI in two ways: as useful testbeds for the development and evaluation of action coordination in human-robot interaction, and by providing insights for action-perception frameworks that can serve the AI of social robots. This research looks at the connection of theater acting and HRI and at the development of autonomous robotic theater actors.
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Papers: Hoffman et al. 2008, Hoffman 2006, Hoffman 2011