Conversation Robot without Warning Function Can Have Protective Effects in Simulated Driving

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Kochi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Nakagawa Yoshinori 高知工科大学, 経済・マネジメント学群, 准教授 (90401140)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ドライブシミュレーター / 同乗者効果

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study revealed that conversation robots can have a protective effect on drivers in simulated driving, even if the robots does not have a function to give alerts to drivers. This finding implies that the existence of robots, rather than the information that it provides the drivers with, have a protective effect that is similar to that of human passenger presence.

Free Research Field

心理統計学