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Studies on a communication robot that improves user's mental condition through emotional contagion

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K00293
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Human interface and interaction
Research InstitutionAdvanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Principal Investigator

Minato Takashi  株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 石黒浩特別研究所, 研究員 (50359858)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Keywordsヒューマンロボットインタラクション / コミュニケーションメディア / タッチインタラクション / 感情伝達 / 感情喚起 / コミュニケーションロボット
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to develop an interactive robot that improves a user's mental state by making his/her feel empathy for it. The approach is emotional contagion, that is, to make the user be infected with the robot's emotion and elicit his/her empathy. This study investigated which kinds of expression modalities such as robot's motion and dialogue content are essential for emotional contagion through psychological experiments. This study finally focused on a touch behavior which is powerful for emotional contagion, and developed a companion robot that is next to the user while watching a movie and elicits his/her empathy with it by touching his/her hand.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人型ロボットは人とのインタラクションにおいて親和性を有しているという点において,既存の情報メディア以上に信頼感や安心感をもたらすことができるメディアとなる.ただし,そのためにはユーザの心的な状態を認識し,それに応じて適切なロボットの振る舞いを設計する必要があるが,その認識が難しいという問題があった.本研究では,ユーザをロボットに共感させるという逆のアプローチで,ユーザの心的状態を改善する方法を見つけ出した.人型ロボットによる人間支援の可能性,有効性を広げたという点で意義のある成果である.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (8 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results,  Invited: 1 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] How Can Robots Make People Feel Intimacy Through Touch?2020

    • Author(s)
      Zheng Xiqian、Shiomi Masahiro、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi、Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) 2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan、Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

      Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Pages: 51-58

    • DOI

      10.20965/jrm.2020.p0051

    • NAID

      130007800561

    • ISSN
      0915-3942, 1883-8049
    • Year and Date
      2020-02-20
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Multi-Modal Interaction Through Anthropomorphically Designed Communication Medium to Enhance the Self-Disclosures of Personal Information2020

    • Author(s)
      Jinnai Nobuhiro、Sumioka Hidenobu、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi、Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan、Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

      Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Pages: 76-85

    • DOI

      10.20965/jrm.2020.p0076

    • NAID

      130007800550

    • ISSN
      0915-3942, 1883-8049
    • Year and Date
      2020-02-20
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Effects of Robot’s Awareness and its Subtle Reactions Toward People’s Perceived Feelings in Touch Interaction2020

    • Author(s)
      Shiomi Masahiro、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi、Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan、Osaka University 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

      Volume: 32 Issue: 1 Pages: 43-50

    • DOI

      10.20965/jrm.2020.p0043

    • NAID

      130007800557

    • ISSN
      0915-3942, 1883-8049
    • Year and Date
      2020-02-20
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] What Kinds of Robot's Touch Will Match Expressed Emotions?2020

    • Author(s)
      Zheng Xiqian、Shiomi Masahiro、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

      Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Pages: 127-134

    • DOI

      10.1109/lra.2019.2947010

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Relationship between Dialogue Motivation and Attribution of Subjective Opinions to Conversational Androids2019

    • Author(s)
      内田貴久, 港隆史, 石黒浩
    • Journal Title

      Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: 34 Issue: 1 Pages: B-I62_1-8

    • DOI

      10.1527/tjsai.B-I62

    • NAID

      130007543132

    • ISSN
      1346-0714, 1346-8030
    • Year and Date
      2019-01-01
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Facial Pre-Touch Space Differentiates the Level of Openness Among Individuals2019

    • Author(s)
      Keshmiri Soheil、Shiomi Masahiro、Shatani Kodai、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 11924-11924

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41598-019-48481-x

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Development of an Autonomous Android with Conversational Capability based on Intention and Desire2019

    • Author(s)
      Ishiguro Hiroshi、Minato Takashi、Koyama Tora
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan

      Volume: 37 Issue: 4 Pages: 312-317

    • DOI

      10.7210/jrsj.37.312

    • NAID

      130007652522

    • ISSN
      0289-1824, 1884-7145
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] How Should a Robot React Before People's Touch?: Modeling a Pre-Touch Reaction Distance for a Robot's Face2018

    • Author(s)
      Shiomi Masahiro、Shatani Kodai、Minato Takashi、Ishiguro Hiroshi
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

      Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Pages: 3773-3780

    • DOI

      10.1109/lra.2018.2856303

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Development of a sensor suit for touch and pre-touch perception toward close human-robot touch interaction2019

    • Author(s)
      Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, Masahiro Shiomi
    • Organizer
      International Workshop of New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Perception, and Learning in Robotics: Emerging Materials and Technologies for Manipulation
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ロボットが表出する感情をより強く自然に伝えるための触れ方に関する検討2019

    • Author(s)
      Zheng Xiqian, 塩見昌裕, 港隆史, 石黒浩
    • Organizer
      日本ロボット学会第37回学術講演会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Design of a robot's conversational capability based on desire and intention2019

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    • Organizer
      IoT Enabling Sensing/Network/AI and Photonics Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Does a robot's subtle pause in reaction time to people's touch contribute to positive influences?2018

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Development of an autonomous android that can naturally talk with people2018

    • Author(s)
      Takashi Minato
    • Organizer
      World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 布型センサ、服型センサおよび服型センサを装着したロボット2020

    • Inventor(s)
      住岡英信, 港隆史, 塩見昌裕, 松本正秀
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      国際電気通信基礎技術研究所
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Filing Date
      2020
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] 布型センサ、服型センサおよび服型センサを装着したロボット2020

    • Inventor(s)
      住岡英信, 港隆史, 塩見昌裕, 松本正秀
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      国際電気通信基礎技術研究所
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Filing Date
      2020
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] ロボット、ロボット制御プログラムおよびロボット制御方法2018

    • Inventor(s)
      塩見昌裕, 港隆史, 石黒浩
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Filing Date
      2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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