Research Article

MES: A Helping Elderly Escort Interactive System Based on Reverse Active Integration of Multimodal Intentions

Table 3

Interaction task 1 (task no. 31).

Interaction experiment (place: living room; time: 4:00 pm; user no: 3)

Interaction no.Integrated intentionStart
1:Drinking teaUser:I want to drink tea (posture: sitting on the chair; gesture: making a fist and shaking it)
Pepper:(Reversely and actively ask) I am not sure about your intention because the gesture information is substandard. Please re-enter the gesture information
2:Drinking teaUser:(Gesture: acting like grasping tea)
Pepper:(Extract the intention of drinking tea and reversely and actively ask) the evening sleeping quality may be affected if you drink tea in the afternoon. Are you sure you want to drink tea now?
3:Drinking teaUser:Yes, now
Pepper:(Execute the task of “taking a cup, tea box, and thermos” as no articles relevant to drinking tea were found in front of the elderly in previous target detection)
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