TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooperative embodied communication emerged by interactive humanoid robots
AU - Sakamoto, Daisuke
AU - Kanda, Takayuki
AU - Ono, Tetsuo
AU - Kamashima, Masayuki
AU - Imai, Michita
AU - Ishiguro, Hiroshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. The authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers for giving us very valuable comments and suggestions for revising our paper, and the special issue editors Dr. Noriko Suzuki and Dr. Christoph Bartneck for providing clear guidance.
PY - 2005/2
Y1 - 2005/2
N2 - Research on humanoid robots has produced various uses for their body properties in communication. In particular, mutual relationships of body movements between a robot and a human are considered to be important for smooth and natural communication, as they are in human-human communication. We have developed a semi-autonomous humanoid robot system that is capable of cooperative body movements with humans using environment-based sensors and switching communicative units. Concretely, this system realizes natural communication by using typical behaviors such as: "nodding," "eye-contact," "face-to-face," etc. It is important to note that the robot parts are NOT operated directly; only the communicative units in the robot system are switched. We conducted an experiment using the mentioned robot system and verified the importance of cooperative behaviors in a route-guidance situation where a human gives directions to the robot. The task requires a human participant (called the "speaker") to teach a route to a "hearer" that is (1) a human, (2) a developed robot that performs cooperative movements, and (3) a robot that does not move at all. This experiment is subjectively evaluated through a questionnaire and an analysis of body movements using three-dimensional data from a motion capture system. The results indicate that the cooperative body movements greatly enhance the emotional impressions of human speakers in a route-guidance situation. We believe these results will allow us to develop interactive humanoid robots that sociably communicate with humans.
AB - Research on humanoid robots has produced various uses for their body properties in communication. In particular, mutual relationships of body movements between a robot and a human are considered to be important for smooth and natural communication, as they are in human-human communication. We have developed a semi-autonomous humanoid robot system that is capable of cooperative body movements with humans using environment-based sensors and switching communicative units. Concretely, this system realizes natural communication by using typical behaviors such as: "nodding," "eye-contact," "face-to-face," etc. It is important to note that the robot parts are NOT operated directly; only the communicative units in the robot system are switched. We conducted an experiment using the mentioned robot system and verified the importance of cooperative behaviors in a route-guidance situation where a human gives directions to the robot. The task requires a human participant (called the "speaker") to teach a route to a "hearer" that is (1) a human, (2) a developed robot that performs cooperative movements, and (3) a robot that does not move at all. This experiment is subjectively evaluated through a questionnaire and an analysis of body movements using three-dimensional data from a motion capture system. The results indicate that the cooperative body movements greatly enhance the emotional impressions of human speakers in a route-guidance situation. We believe these results will allow us to develop interactive humanoid robots that sociably communicate with humans.
KW - Entrainment
KW - Environment-based sensing
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Subjective experiments
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2004.11.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2004.11.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:13444293101
SN - 1071-5819
VL - 62
SP - 247
EP - 265
JO - International Journal of Human Computer Studies
JF - International Journal of Human Computer Studies
IS - 2
ER -