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A Social Robot in a Tourist Environment

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services (UCAmI 2014)

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In this paper, we have focused on applying robotics as a social element and an intermediary in tourism. To that end, a system has been developed that will benefit the tourist experience. To do this, every room of the hotel would have a low-cost social robot, a Karotz. This robot interacts orally with the tourist to provide him or her with news about the hotel and the best tourism activities for the user. The components of the robot were used during the development to make communication flows natural. This has enabled us to create a social robot that covers a need faced by the tourist industry. The developed prototype shows that this is a plausible field of application for social robotics.

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  1. Institute for Cybernetic Science and Technology, Department of Informatics and Systems, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Diego Nieto, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia, Carmelo R. García & Roberto Moreno-Díaz

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  1. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla Ly Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Ramón Hervás

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong, Giheung-gu, 446-701, Yongin-si, Gyeongi-do, Korea

    Sungyoung Lee

  3. Computer Science Research Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown Campus, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Newtownabbey, UK

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  4. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, Spain

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Nieto, D., Quesada-Arencibia, A., García, C.R., Moreno-Díaz, R. (2014). A Social Robot in a Tourist Environment. In: Hervás, R., Lee, S., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services. UCAmI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8867. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_5

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