A Robotic Dating Coaching System Leveraging Online Communities Posts
Sihyeon Jo, Donghwi Jung, Keonwoo Kim, Eun Gyo Joung, Giulia Nespoli,, Seungryong Yoo, Minseob So, Seung-Woo Seo, and Seong-Woo Kim

TL;DR
This paper presents a robotic dating coaching system that uses online community data to simulate personalized coaching, evaluating user perceptions and highlighting its entertainment value over practical usefulness.
Contribution
It introduces a novel approach to develop a dating coaching robot using publicly available online community data, addressing data scarcity issues.
Findings
Participants viewed the robot as a potential dating coach.
The robot was perceived as entertaining rather than helpful.
The system demonstrates the feasibility of leveraging online data for coaching robots.
Abstract
Can a robot be a personal dating coach? Even with the increasing amount of conversational data on the internet, the implementation of conversational robots remains a challenge. In particular, a detailed and professional counseling log is expensive and not publicly accessible. In this paper, we develop a robot dating coaching system leveraging corpus from online communities. We examine people's perceptions of the dating coaching robot with a dialogue module. 97 participants joined to have a conversation with the robot, and 30 of them evaluated the robot. The results indicate that participants thought the robot could become a dating coach while considering the robot is entertaining rather than helpful.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSocial Robot Interaction and HRI · AI in Service Interactions · Media, Religion, Digital Communication
