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This year's human-robot interaction (HRI) conference focuses on “robots in the loop” and how robots are capable of enhancing the experiences of human users in everyday life and work. Telepresence robots allow operators the ability to participate in remote locations through their mobility and live bidirectional audio and video feeds. Using robotic telepresence, students with chronic illnesses are attending...
In this paper, we report an android robot system to support medical and welfare fields using communication, and a demonstration experiment using this system at a pain clinic. An android which consist of the system is Actroid-F very similar to real female and can exhibit various facial expressions such as smile, anger and surprise. Since the android and an air-servo control system are light, compact...
On considering symbiosis of humans and robots, its benefits and risks should be taken into account for persons in weaker positions of the society, in particular, children. On the other hand, several robotics applications have been developed, including education and welfare for children. In this stage, it is important that more researchers from interdisciplinary research fields, including robotics,...
This paper discusses converging evidence to support the hypothesis that personified robots and other embodied personified computational systems may represent a new ontological category, where ontology refers to basic categories of being, and ways of distinguishing them.
In recent work, ??interaction patterns?? have been proposed as a means to characterize essential features of human-robot interaction. A problem arises, however, in knowing whether the interaction patterns generated are valid. The same problem arises when researchers in HRI propose other broad conceptualizations that seek to structure social interaction. In this paper, we address this general problem...
During conversations, speakers establish their and others' participant roles (who participates in the conversation and in what capacity)—or “footing” as termed by Goffman—using gaze cues. In this paper, we study how a robot can establish the participant roles of its conversational partners using these cues. We designed a set of gaze behaviors for Robovie to signal three kinds of participant roles:...
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