Cultural competence - i.e., the capability to adapt verbal and non-verbal interaction to the user's cultural background - may be a key element for social robots to increase the user experience. However, designing and implementing culturally competent social robots is a complex task, given that advanced conversational skills are required. In this context, Cloud services may be useful for helping robots in generating appropriate interaction patterns in a culture-aware manner. In this letter, we present the design and the implementation of the CARESSES Cloud, a set of robotic services aimed at endowing robots with cultural competence in verbal interaction. A preliminary evaluation of the Cloud services as a general dialoguing system for culture-aware social robots has been performed, analyzing the feasibility of the architecture in terms of communication and data processing delays.

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面向会话机器人的文化感知云服务的可行性研究

文化能力——即使语言和非语言交互适应用户文化背景的能力——可能是社交机器人增加用户体验的关键因素。然而，考虑到需要高级会话技能，设计和实施具有文化能力的社交机器人是一项复杂的任务。在这种情况下，云服务可能有助于机器人以文化意识的方式生成适当的交互模式。在这封信中，我们介绍了 CARESSES Cloud 的设计和实施，这是一套旨在赋予机器人语言互动文化能力的机器人服务。已对云服务作为具有文化意识的社交机器人的通用对话系统进行了初步评估，