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Perceptual Information Made Available by Haptic Exploration: An Ecological Perspective

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21KK0182
Research Category

Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B))

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Medium-sized Section 61:Human informatics and related fields
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

NONAKA TETSUSHI  神戸大学, 人間発達環境学研究科, 教授 (20520133)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中嶋 浩平  東京大学, 大学院情報理工学系研究科, 准教授 (10740251)
永野 光  京都工芸繊維大学, 繊維学系, 准教授 (70758127)
Project Period (FY) 2021-10-07 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2024)
Budget Amount *help
¥18,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥8,190,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,890,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Keywords探索 / 身体性 / レザバー計算 / 点字 / 知能 / 学習 / 柔軟性 / 知覚学習 / 目的志向性 / リザバー計算 / 操作スキル / 環境 / 発達 / goal-directed system / agency / dexterity / reservoir computing / アフォーダンス / スキル / 操作
Outline of Research at the Start

人間の手は物体を操作する遂行的機能をもつ操作器官であると同時に,環境内の対象を知覚するきわめて高度な探索的機能をもつ探索器官である.本研究では,知覚対象に特化して生まれる「探索器官としての手」の活動がどのようにしてリアルタイムで創発し,発達するのかという問いに対して,探索にともなう自発的な動きがやわらかい身体にもたらす摂動ダイナミクスを情報資源としてとらえる視点から,人工知能,工学,認知科学の異分野融合国際共同研究により検討する.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, Japanese researchers specializing in embodied cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and haptics collaborated with researchers from an overseas partner institution (the Bio-inspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, which specializes in robotics) to conduct an international joint research project. The project investigated perceptual information embedded in the rich passive dynamics that arise in the body during physical contact and movement. Through experiments using finger robots with soft skin, simulations of skills controlling contact with the environment, and analysis of the temporal structure of exploratory movements, we demonstrated how the body itself serves as a rich reservoir of information, and how bodily movements selectively pick up relevant information from the reservoir of information. The research findings were disseminated widely through international conferences and academic journals.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人間の知覚探索には身体の動きを伴うが,身体の動きによってどのような情報が獲得可能になり,また動きがどのように情報獲得に寄与するのかはこれまで十分に理解されてこなかった。本研究では,柔らかい皮膚をもつロボットや筋骨格モデルのシミュレーションを用いた実験や,人間の探索動作の検討を通して,感覚器や運動器が埋め込まれた身体がまるごと豊かな情報場となっていることや,身体の動きが有用な情報に選択的に焦点をあてる役割を果たすことを示した。これらの知見は,中枢における入出力信号の処理という知覚行為の捉え方を覆し,知覚における身体およびその動きの役割に新たな光をあて,多方面にインパクトを与えた。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2024 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (56 results)

All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (8 results) Journal Article (18 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Open Access: 7 results,  Peer Reviewed: 14 results) Presentation (24 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 13 results,  Invited: 11 results) Book (4 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Cambridge(英国)

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Minnesota(米国)

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Cambridge/University College London(英国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Minnesota(米国)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Deakin University/James Cook University(オーストラリア)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Aix Marseille University(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Cambridge(英国)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of Cambridge(英国)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] AI-powered musical and entertainment robotics2025

    • Author(s)
      Wang Huijiang、Hughes Josie、Nonaka Tetsushi、Abdulali Arsen、Lalitharatne Thilina Dulantha、Iida Fumiya
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Robotics and AI

      Volume: 12 Pages: 1572828-1572828

    • DOI

      10.3389/frobt.2025.1572828

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Developmental Cascades2024

    • Author(s)
      野中 哲士、山﨑 寛恵、西尾 千尋
    • Journal Title

      The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology

      Volume: 35 Issue: 4 Pages: 171-172

    • DOI

      10.11201/jjdp.35.4sp.editorial

    • ISSN
      0915-9029, 2187-9346
    • Year and Date
      2024-12-20
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The Speech and Behavior of the Parent in Response to the Spontaneous Hand-Movement of the Pre-sitting Infant2024

    • Author(s)
      青井 郁美、野中 哲士
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology

      Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Pages: 3-28

    • DOI

      10.24807/jep.16.1_3

    • ISSN
      1349-0443, 2434-012X
    • Year and Date
      2024-05-01
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Can a human sing with an unseen artificial partner? Coordination dynamics when singing with an unseen human or artificial partner2024

    • Author(s)
      Nishiyama Rina、Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Robotics and AI

      Volume: 11 Pages: 1463477-1463477

    • DOI

      10.3389/frobt.2024.1463477

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Selective Engagement with Specific Invariants in the Perception of Art2024

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Ecological Psychology

      Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Pages: 81-94

    • DOI

      10.1080/10407413.2024.2355896

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities2024

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi、Gandon Enora、Endler John A、Coyle Thelma、Bootsma Reinoud J
    • Journal Title

      PNAS Nexus

      Volume: 3 Issue: 2

    • DOI

      10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae055

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Embedding Bifurcations into Pneumatic Artificial Muscle2024

    • Author(s)
      Akashi Nozomi、Kuniyoshi Yasuo、Jo Taketomo、Nishida Mitsuhiro、Sakurai Ryo、Wakao Yasumichi、Nakajima Kohei
    • Journal Title

      Advanced Science

      Volume: 2304402 Issue: 25

    • DOI

      10.1002/advs.202304402

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 手の所作の発達―その環境と経験2024

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Journal Title

      臨床心理学

      Volume: 23 Pages: 501-506

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Two notions of medium and their implications for intelligence2023

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

      Volume: 1292 Issue: 1 Pages: 012022-012022

    • DOI

      10.1088/1757-899x/1292/1/012022

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Coordinating upper limbs for octave playing on the piano via neuro-musculoskeletal modeling2023

    • Author(s)
      Wang Huijiang、Nonaka Tetsushi、Abdulali Arsen、Iida Fumiya
    • Journal Title

      Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

      Volume: 18 Issue: 6 Pages: 066009-066009

    • DOI

      10.1088/1748-3190/acfa51

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns2023

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi、Abdulali Arsen、Sirithunge Chapa、Gilday Kieran、Iida Fumiya
    • Journal Title

      2023 IEEE 6th international conference on soft robotics (RoboSoft)

      Volume: - Pages: 1-7

    • DOI

      10.1109/robosoft55895.2023.10121950

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] An Ecological Approach to Intelligence2023

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan

      Volume: 41 Issue: 7 Pages: 618-624

    • DOI

      10.7210/jrsj.41.618

    • ISSN
      0289-1824, 1884-7145
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Relation between the kinematic synergy controlling swing foot and visual exploration during obstacle crossing2023

    • Author(s)
      Yamagata Momoko、Nagai Rira、Morihiro Kaoru、Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Biomechanics

      Volume: 157 Pages: 111702-111702

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111702

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka, Arsen Abdulali, Chapa Sirithunge, Kieran Gilday, Fumiya Iida
    • Journal Title

      6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] When do toddlers point during mealtime?: Pointing in the second year of life in everyday situations2023

    • Author(s)
      Kasuya Jun、Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Psychology

      Volume: 14

    • DOI

      10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1050975

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] メディウムと知能2022

    • Author(s)
      野中 哲士
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: 37 Issue: 6 Pages: 727-734

    • DOI

      10.11517/jjsai.37.6_727

    • ISSN
      2188-2266, 2435-8614
    • Year and Date
      2022-11-01
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?2022

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka Tetsushi
    • Journal Title

      Behavioral and Brain Sciences

      Volume: 45

    • DOI

      10.1017/s0140525x22001261

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Activation of stance by cues, or attunement to the invariants in a populated environment?2022

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Journal Title

      Behavioral and Brain Sciences

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Goal-directed behavior: 物理系から社会まで2025

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Organizer
      第37回自律分散システム・シンポジウム 計測自動制御学会 システム・情報部門
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Infants' manual contact with environmental objects and contingent experiences2025

    • Author(s)
      Aoi, I., Nonaka., T
    • Organizer
      Adaptive Behavior and its Ecological Foundations 2025
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 赤ちゃんに見る多様で連続的な発達2024

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本赤ちゃん学会第24回学術集会
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Cultural attraction in pottery practice: Group-specific shape transformations by potters from three communities2024

    • Author(s)
      Nonaka, T., Gandon, E., Endler, J. A., Coyle, T., Bootsma, R. J.
    • Organizer
      The XXII International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA 2024)
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] エージェントと環境の相補性:身体と動きが与えるもの2024

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Organizer
      ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2024
    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 発達心理学者は発達にどうアプローチするのか2024

    • Author(s)
      柳岡開地,畑野快,平井真洋,野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第35回大会
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 乳児が物に触れることに付随して起こる保育士の関わり2024

    • Author(s)
      青井郁美, 野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第35回大会
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Development of self in a populated environment2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS) 2023
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 制作論的転回? 同じ川は二度入れない、同じモノは二度作れない2023

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Organizer
      第20回日本質的心理学会
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Soft robotics and embodied intelligence (Workshop Panel)2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Structure of variability in scanning movement involved in braille reading2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito, Thomas A. Stoffregen
    • Organizer
      XXI International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA 2023)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Soft robotic tactile perception of softer objects based on learning of spatiotemporal pressure patterns2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka, Arsen Abdulali, Chapa Sirithunge, Kieran Gilday, Fumiya Iida
    • Organizer
      6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (Workshop)2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka (Organizers: Chapa Sirithunge, Arsen Abdulali, Fumiya Iida, Josie Hughes, Matteo Cianchetti, Thrishantha Nanayakkara)
    • Organizer
      6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Reciprocity of agent and environment: Implications for embodied intelligence2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 発達カスケードの示唆:変化と経験の関係の非自明性2023

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士, 山﨑寛恵, 西尾千尋, 新屋裕太, 青山慶, 青井郁美, 麻生武
    • Organizer
      日本発達心理学会第34回大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Structure of variability in scanning movement predicts braille reading performance in children2022

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka, Kiyohide Ito, Thomas A. Stoffregen
    • Organizer
      The North American Meeting of International Society of Ecological Psychology (ISEP2022)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The morphogenesis of ceramic vessels: Cross-cultural and individual variation2022

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka, Enora Gandon, John A. Endler, Thelma Coyle, Reinoud J. Bootsma
    • Organizer
      The North American Meeting of International Society of Ecological Psychology (ISEP2022)
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Reciprocity of actor and environment: implications for biological and artificial systems2022

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      Workshop 'Soft Robotics for Mixed Reality'
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Towards an Ecology of Evolving Skills2022

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka
    • Organizer
      Embodied Intelligence International Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Perception as Information Detection: 生態心理学の現在2022

    • Author(s)
      山崎 寛恵,西尾 千尋,青山 慶,野中 哲士,工藤 和俊,髙村 夏輝,豊泉 俊大,樋口 貴広,奥野 真之
    • Organizer
      日本生態心理学会第9回大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 乳児の手の動きに伴う養育者の言動2022

    • Author(s)
      青井郁美,野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本生態心理学会第9回大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 座位獲得以前の乳児が日常場面において自発的に手を動かして触れた環境内の対象2022

    • Author(s)
      青井郁美,野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本生態心理学会第9回大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 環境を探索する身体動作組織の発達2021

    • Author(s)
      野中哲士
    • Organizer
      日本バーチャルリアリティ学会ハプティクス研究委員会第27回研究会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] The Oxford handbook of cognitive archaeology2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka (Eds., Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Frederick L. Coolidge)
    • Publisher
      Oxford University Press
    • ISBN
      9780192895950
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Modern Legacy of Gibson’s Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms2023

    • Author(s)
      Tetsushi Nonaka (Eds., Madhur Mangalam, Alen Hajnal, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen)
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology2022

    • Author(s)
      Thomas Wynn, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Frederick L. Coolidge, Tetsushi Nonaka et al.
    • Publisher
      Oxford University Press
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 生きていること2021

    • Author(s)
      ティム・インゴルド、柴田 崇、野中 哲士、佐古 仁志、原島 大輔、青山 慶、柳澤 田実
    • Total Pages
      604
    • Publisher
      左右社
    • ISBN
      4865280375
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Adaptive Behavior and its Ecological Foundations 20252025

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Thomas A. Stoffregen講演会2025

    • Related Report
      2024 Annual Research Report

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