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Most of the works use sensor to recognize human gesture and teleoperate robot in real time for different usage. One of the purpose is social learning which human learn behavior and take place in the social context. Our research aims to let user create customizable gesture and motion for proper condition. This paper presented the method to replicates human gesture for robot imitation. If robot can...
This paper based on user's questionnaire data to discuss and suggest appearance/function of robotics for older adults. It starts from people's familiar view, particularly makes robot a rule that help people but not let people feel disturb. Questionnaire data are collected as basic data, data analysis and data mining are applied for distinguish people's different needs and situations. The questionnaire...
This paper describe the design and development way to assist older adults, and want to start from people's familiar view, particularly makes robot a rule's that help people but not let people feel disturb. Questioners data are collected as basic data, data analysis and data mining are applied for distinguish people's different needs and situations. The questioner includes people's lifestyle data and...
In recent years, many kinds of humanoid robots have been developed. A disadvantage of a simple robot is a lack of movements unlike some humanoid robots have arms. The authors test simple robots could realize fluent communication as well as humanoid robots. What kind of motion should do as basic communication movements for a simple robot was researched in pre-experiments. Based on the results of pre-experiments,...
A robot called “Telepresence Robot” is on business in recent years. Existing telepresence robots has no assist in their moving. People have to control telepresence robots with just video information. To better develop the system of the robot, here we study a movement support system based on an operating skill. People are divided to beginner and advanced in a preliminary experiment. An experiment comparing...
Service robots are common sights in everyday life. The service robots are expected to provide useful services with a high degree of usability, and a high degree of user experience (UX) to users and other persons around the service robots. In addition, the human-centred design (HCD) is being used in various industries, and HCD can be used also in the service robot industry for improving usability and...
Nowadays, people have richer life than hundred years ago. Thus, we have times to notice and consider our life quality. Life quality includes many important factors, which includes food, emotion, exercise amount, etc., and one of the important factors is sleep. We are hard to deny that having a sleepless night seems became a common experience for all of us. This paper discuss an application that focus...
We have been developing and researching chat robot for elderly people. This paper proposed category estimation for voice based chat robot system. Proposed method estimates a category of the user's utterance sentence. Category or topic estimation have been studied by many researchers, however voice base chat system needs a quick response. Therefore our system is simple method just using keyword match...
Nowadays, there are more and more people start to notice their health in daily life that makes this topic become a popular topic. Many health care systems or applications are developed, but these systems only depend on calculating the amount of exercise by devices, but don't involve other situations, such as life rhythm, social condition, etc. In this paper, the authors discuss and improve these existence...
A wearable fingertip based input interface software has been developed. High speed detection of fingertip position for maintaining real-time software capability, stable finger motion analysis as well as reliable direction pointing have been added to the real-time JAVA based foreground segmentation software. The developed interface system can be run on a single microprocessor with a glasses-type single...
According to the progress of medicine, the average of people's life are also increased. Because of this, the trend of health care is developed. A research focuses on user's life rhythm for supporting, based on user's life style was presented. The research depends on user information, thus it is also possible to offer a user-friendly interface that doesn't spend a lot of time to learn the operation...
Community formation is important factor in human life, but it is not easy when your living environment is changed by retirement, moving, and so on. Therefore we focused on community formation and participation support system. Our proposed system find a relation and similarity by using personal characteristics. The authors place importance in a mutually assistance relation which utilize the advantages...
Finding, participating, and creating a community is not easy, but community is one of the important factor in life. Community-centric system is focused on not only each user but also whole of the community. The system which support to maintain and expand a community is needed. Therefore, this paper focused on community-centric research. Firstly, the authors discuss the necessity of community-centric...
The robot called “Telepresence Robot” is on business in recent years. However, the robot does not consider user's personal space when the robot approaches the user. To better develop the system of the robot, here we study about how the robot approaches a user. The three factors was considered to influence the scope of the user's personal space. The first factor is the position where the robot starts...
Eldely person living alone is easy to stand alone from the society. When a desaster happens, it is difficult to help them instantly. After 3.11, the importance of local community has been recognized. So, we form a community including the elderly person living alone in daily life. We should promote the cooperation not only daily life but also emergency. To form a community, it is necessary to make...
It looks easy to make human relationship, but it is difficult because of various factors. Moreover, it is difficult to continue a dialog with those who have never met before. Dialogs aren't continued without pleasant topics. However, if pleasant topics are understood, dialogs are continued and he/she wants to talk about himself/herself. It is supposed to be applied to dialog with robot as well. If...
The authors developed cloud based chat robot for exhilarating elderly people. Our robot is designed to keep users from being bored. Conventional chat robot systems use huge phrase database in advance. However, fixed phrase involves an immense amount of time and effort to make. The proposed system uses dialogue histories which are collected from users. This paper reports the effect of updating the...
Since the progress of technology, smart life that using technology to improve human's daily life becomes possible. But the problems of usage always disturb people. One of the problems is how to make the technology adept and useful to human's usual life, and don't let human change his/her habit, especially these people who aren't familiar with new technology. The authors design a system concept that...
Background In recent years, the population structure in Taiwan has changed so dramatically. Based on concerns of social welfare issues, Taiwanese government began to seek principles for assessment of disability. After seven years of carefully evaluation, the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (Abbreviated to ICF) is officially adopted as...
This paper shows acquiring personal keywords and using them for human-robot communication or supporting to human-human communication. Personal keywords are feature of personality. Proposed system acquiring the keywords from a conversation. Authors developed a prototype of the keywords based communication system. First experiment acquired the keywords from the 2 trial conversations and set up the robot...
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