2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Robot Interfaces that Support Educational Communication between Older People and Children
| Project/Area Number |
15H01708
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent robotics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
木村 武史 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (00294611)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | 知能ロボティクス |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project concerns robotics technologies for supporting intergenerational communication involving young and elderly populations. As a practical use case in aging societies with fewer children, we focused on a remote teaching setting in which elderly persons gave remote classes from his/her home to school children. We conducted a participatory development involving a wide range of stakeholders to extract crucial knowledge and develop element technologies, whose results were published in domestic/international conferences and journals. They include works reported in the field of humanity and social science. A survey guideline paper summarizing robotics for education was published in a high-impact scientific journal.
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| Free Research Field |
ソーシャルロボティクス
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
ソーシャルロボットの研究が世界中で活発化しているが、子どもと高齢者など世代間にまたがる知的インタフェースとしてのロボット技術に関する研究は未だに限られている。本研究では、シニアコミュニティの協力を得て、実際に小学校における長期フィールド実験を行い、子どもや高齢者などユーザに積極的に開発関与して頂くことによって有用な知見を得た。得られたフィードバックからは、新しい要素技術研究が複数産まれており、高齢者の社会参加を促進する技術研究として、学術的意義・社会的意義の双方が見込まれる。
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