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Main Authors: Meng, Zhijin, Althubyani, Mohammed, Xie, Shengyuan, Razzak, Imran, Sandoval, Eduardo B., Bamdad, Mahdi, Cruz, Francisco
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16473
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author Meng, Zhijin
Althubyani, Mohammed
Xie, Shengyuan
Razzak, Imran
Sandoval, Eduardo B.
Bamdad, Mahdi
Cruz, Francisco
author_facet Meng, Zhijin
Althubyani, Mohammed
Xie, Shengyuan
Razzak, Imran
Sandoval, Eduardo B.
Bamdad, Mahdi
Cruz, Francisco
contents Traditional rule-based conversational robots, constrained by predefined scripts and static response mappings, fundamentally lack adaptability for personalized, long-term human interaction. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have revolutionized conversational AI through open-domain capabilities, current social robots implementing LLMs still lack emotional awareness and continuous personalization. This dual limitation hinders their ability to sustain engagement across multiple interaction sessions. We bridge this gap with PERCY (Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational sYstem), a system designed to enable open-domain, multi-turn dialogues by dynamically analyzing users' real-time facial expressions and vocabulary to tailor responses based on their emotional state. Built on a ROS-based multimodal framework, PERCY integrates a fine-tuned GPT-4 reasoning engine, combining textual sentiment analysis with visual emotional cues to accurately assess and respond to user emotions. We evaluated PERCY's performance through various dialogue quality metrics, showing strong coherence, relevance, and diversity. Human evaluations revealed PERCY's superior personalization and comparable naturalness to other models. This work highlights the potential for integrating advanced multimodal perception and personalization in social robot dialogue systems.
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spellingShingle PERCY: Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational System
Meng, Zhijin
Althubyani, Mohammed
Xie, Shengyuan
Razzak, Imran
Sandoval, Eduardo B.
Bamdad, Mahdi
Cruz, Francisco
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
Traditional rule-based conversational robots, constrained by predefined scripts and static response mappings, fundamentally lack adaptability for personalized, long-term human interaction. While Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have revolutionized conversational AI through open-domain capabilities, current social robots implementing LLMs still lack emotional awareness and continuous personalization. This dual limitation hinders their ability to sustain engagement across multiple interaction sessions. We bridge this gap with PERCY (Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational sYstem), a system designed to enable open-domain, multi-turn dialogues by dynamically analyzing users' real-time facial expressions and vocabulary to tailor responses based on their emotional state. Built on a ROS-based multimodal framework, PERCY integrates a fine-tuned GPT-4 reasoning engine, combining textual sentiment analysis with visual emotional cues to accurately assess and respond to user emotions. We evaluated PERCY's performance through various dialogue quality metrics, showing strong coherence, relevance, and diversity. Human evaluations revealed PERCY's superior personalization and comparable naturalness to other models. This work highlights the potential for integrating advanced multimodal perception and personalization in social robot dialogue systems.
title PERCY: Personal Emotional Robotic Conversational System
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16473