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To investigate influences of inconsistency on forms of information presentation by robots, a psychological experiment was conducted in Japan, with between-subject design for forty five university students. In the experiment, a small-sized humanoid robot performed self-introduction with polite/impolite postures and polite/impolite phrases in the utterances, in the Japanese cultural sense. The results...
Body motion expression is one of the useful methods that robots present their emotional states toward users. Since emotions themselves have cultural dependency, however, it is estimated that effects of affective body motions depend on users' demographic factors such as gender and age. In order to clarify this dependence, a psychological experiment was conducted to investigate age differences on evaluation...
In the recent situation that robotics is expected for education of technologies and sciences in Japan, it is important to consider what psychological states should be achieved in students, and understand how far the current states are from the states to be achieved, especially from the perspective of ldquomaking-artifactsrdquo in the sense of manufacturing industries. This paper reports some case...
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