  The Dialogic Robot Competition 2023 (DRC2023) is a competition for humanoid
robots (android robots that closely resemble humans) to compete in interactive
capabilities. This is the third year of the competition. The top four teams
from the preliminary competition held in November 2023 will compete in the
final competition on Saturday, December 23. The task for the interactive robots
is to recommend a tourism plan for a specific region. The robots can employ
multimodal behaviors, such as language and gestures, to engage the user in the
sightseeing plan they recommend. In the preliminary round, the interactive
robots were stationed in a travel agency office, where visitors conversed with
them and rated their performance via a questionnaire. In the final round,
dialogue researchers and tourism industry professionals interacted with the
robots and evaluated their performance. This event allows visitors to gain
insights into the types of dialogue services that future dialogue robots should
offer. The proceedings include papers on dialogue systems developed by the 12
teams participating in DRC2023, as well as an overview of the papers provided
by all the teams.
