Touch Communication Robot modeled on Hearing Dog Behavior

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H02768
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Nakamura Tsuyoshi 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (90303693)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山田 晃嗣 情報科学芸術大学院大学, メディア表現研究科, 准教授 (30405138) ; 岩堀 祐之 中部大学, 工学部, 教授 (60203402) ; 片上 大輔 東京工芸大学, 工学部, 教授 (90345372) ; 加納 政芳 中京大学, 工学部, 教授 (90387621)
• Research Collaborator: IWATA Akira ; KUROYANAGI Susumu ; TAKAHASHI Yasutake
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 接触コミュニケーション / HRI / 聴覚障害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Hearing dogs play a role of assisting hearing-impaired people. The touch of the dog to the people can alert the people to important life sounds, such as doorbells and fire alarms. Hearing dogs are useful to assist the people, but the working number of the dogs are insufficient all over the world. Our study proposed a hearing-dog robot which is expected as an alternative assistant. In this paper we proposed and constructed a behavior model for the hearing-dog robot. We conducted an experiment to evaluate the proposed model. As the result, we achieved the usefulness of the model. Addition to that, we conducted another experiment to wake users up using the robot bumping action. As the result, we confirmed the bumping action can wake the users up as well as the existing wake-up equipment.

Free Research Field

ヒューマンロボットインタラクション