@inproceedings{bohus2014directions, author = {Bohus, Dan and Saw, Nick and Horvitz, Eric}, title = {Directions Robot: In-the-Wild Experiences and Lessons Learned}, year = {2014}, month = {February}, abstract = {We introduce Directions Robot, a system we have fielded for studying open-world human-robot interaction. The system brings together models for situated spoken language interaction with directions-generation and a gesturing humanoid robot. We describe the perceptual, interaction, and output generation competencies of this system. We then discuss experiences and lessons drawn from data collected in an initial in-the-wild deployment, and highlight several challenges with managing engagement, providing directions, and handling out-of-domain queries that arise in openworld, multiparty settings.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/directions-robot-wild-experiences-lessons-learned/}, }