SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE

From Small Talk to Rapport: Exploring Robot Self-Disclosure in Collaborative Tasks

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

People naturally chat while collaborating and share personal information (i.e., self-disclose) to build rapport and maintain social connections. As robots are increasingly developed to work with people, the effective use of these social behaviors to enhance engagement and support teamwork becomes ever more important. While prior work has shown that robot-initiated small talk can benefit human-robot collaboration, less is known about how best to design such small talk. In this work, we explore how self-disclosure may be designed to support small talk within a human-robot team---especially when

Read original source ↗ Open in workspace

recordType

paper

region

Global