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Our research goal was to develop a robot counseling system. It is important for a counselor to promote self-disclosure of clients to reduce their anxiety feelings. However, when a counselor is human, clients sometimes hesitate to disclose intrusive topics due to embarrassment and self-esteem issues. We hypothesized that a robot counselor, on account of its unique kind of agency, could remove mental...
In this study, ease of talking is compared in three conversation forms: face-to-face conversation (direct conversation) and conversation with a robot that is tele-operated from the same room and different room (semi-indirect and indirect conversation, respectively). As a result, it was found that the silent time, which indicates how long the participants make an interlocutor wait until a response...
We conducted a pilot experiment to examine the potential of a communication robot for supporting verbal interaction among adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their caregivers. Three teenagers with ASD indirectly conversed with their teacher via a desktop humanoid robot for around 40 min on average per day. In this situation, they showed some positive tendencies such as non-echolalic...
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