Extrapersonal communication is communication between humans and non-human entities. It includes communication with animals through training, communication with plants through touch responses, and developing communication with robots and machines. As artificial intelligence advances, human-robot communication is increasing through voice assistants, robots that play video games, and robot secretaries that greet people and continue conversations. However, challenges remain as people may have inflated expectations of robots' knowledge and want them to display human-like emotions and opinions.

1. Extrapersonal
communication

2. Communication
Communication is:
• the exchange of thoughts, messages, or
information;
• a process whereby information is
channeled and imparted by a sender to a
receiver via some medium. The receiver
then decodes the message and gives the
sender a feedback;
• a social interaction through messages.
The word ‘communication’ is derived
from the Latin verb
communicare, which means "to
share" or "to make common"

3. Types of communication
There are following types of communication:
• Intra-personal Communication - talking to ourselves;
• Interpersonal communication occurs between two people, and both parties act
simultaneously as a transmitting and as a receiving party;
• Extrapersonal communication;
• Group communication refers to communication between 3 or more individuals. People
belong to groups to satisfy needs that they cannot meet satisfy on their own.
• Mass communication is the process by which a person, group of people, or large
organization creates a message and transmits it through some type of medium to a large,
anonymous, heterogeneous audience.

4. Extrapersonal communication
Extra Personal Communication is that way of communication in which
a human interacts with other species. Communication between human
beings and non-human entities is extra personal communication.
Types of extrapersonal communications:
- Communication with animals;
- Communication with plants;
- Communication with machines/robots;

5. Communication with animals
• In everyday life, we communicate
with animals, we train them and
they react according to our
instructions and commands. For
example, house dogs, horses, cats
and monkeys etc.

6. Communication with plants
• In everyday life, sometime we find
some persons, who have the habit
of talking at with plants. Certain
plants react to our touch, for
example, touch-me-not plant
(mimosa pudica).

7. Human-Robot Communication
• Due to the technical progress there is new type of communication – human-
robot communication.
• Modern technology has replaced many humans; robots are doing of the
jobs which used to be done by humans.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines. It is about
designing machines that can think. Researchers also aim at introducing an
emotional aspect into them.

8. Voice assistants
• Today, we know systems of
artificial intelligence (voice
assistant), such as Siri, Google and
Cortana. They operate on the basis
of principle: person the first asks a
question, and then the voice
assistant answers.

9. Now artificial intelligence can play computer
games with you as the human player!
• Scientists at Carnegie University - Mellon Guillaume
Lample and Devendra Singh Chaplot created a
system of artificial intelligence and taught it to play
video games, to play in the truest sense of the word.
New artificial intelligence do not rely on a pre-
defined ways and scripts, as it happens with all bots in
games. They navigate in the virtual space, use the
interface elements and controls, examine the levels
and gameplay mechanics. If in the modern video
game artificial intelligence is "inside" the game and
fully programmed, then the newly created AI is "out"
of the game and knows the inner workings of the
game world as the human player.

10. Robot-secretary
• Today there are robots-secretary that greet
guests, smile, shake hands.
• In Nanyang technological University,
Singapore, robot Nadine works as a
secretary. She recalls already came visitors
and continue the conversation with them.
Unlike many other robots, Nadine shows
emotions and self; she's a humanoid and
she looks very natural in statics, but the
movement and expression makes you feel
the difference.

11. Some difficulties of communication between
people and robots
• Inflate expectations and subsequent disappointment. We want the robot to
know everything.
• The second difficulty of communication between people and robots is that
we want the robot was similar to us. People want robots to have an opinion
about anything. We want the robot to experienced emotions (scary, happy,
jealous). It should be noted that we would like to see a robot that does not
just behaves as a person, but looks like human.

12. Conclusion
Extrapersonal communication is inevitable and, in some case,
indispensable type of communication by which human can meet his needs. Of
course, extrapersonal cannot fully satisfy our need in conversation. Usually we
do not have satisfying feedback from this kind of communication. However,
such kind of communication may help us in some life cases. For example, we
can ask the dog to bring something for us, or we can receive the information
that we need from some kind of robots. Thus, this type of communication can
be relatively useful.

13. Thank you for your attention!