| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We focus on relationships between humans and a dog to build a long-term relationship between a person and the robot, because dogs are able to build social relationships with humans and maintain the relationships for a long term. Studies on ethology of dogs clarify characteristics in human-dog communication based on the observation of their behaviors. Specifically, we focus on dogs' attachment behaviors. A dog shows attachment to a person who is the dog’s owner. It is expected that the attachment relationship would be built between an owner and a dog as the basis of social relationships.
We built an attachment behavior model for a social robot. To show differences of behavioral characteristics of the robot, the factors such as the attachment to the owner, the acceptance of a stranger and the sensitivity of anxiety were introduced. We evaluated human-robot communication based on the proposed ethologically-inspired robot behaviors (attachment and leading behaviors) through experiments.
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