Robot acceptance to the human community with the social contingency

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K12008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related
• Research Institution: Toyohashi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Hayashi Kotaro 豊橋技術科学大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (80728345)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 浅井 優一 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 講師 (80726860) ; 佐藤 健 東京農工大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40402242)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: ヒューマノイドロボット / Human-robot interaction / 社会言語学 / Pedagogical robot / 宗教・儀礼 / Ethnography

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Robots are having more working opportunities than before. Daily life with autonomous robots will become common. However, it is not clear that people and the robots can live together. We studied the mechanism that they are embraced as a member of human-community and necessary behaviors, therefore. We conducted an English pedagogical robot experiment for a month. Although the participants did not get a better grade, they gained confidence. Furthermore, we revealed people expand action space to the collaborative worker.

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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

人間がロボットを受け入れる過程を明らかにすることで、今後進みつつあるロボットの社会進出において、人間がロボットをストレスや不安なく社会に受け入れる技術を開発します。また、そもそも人間が何かを受け入れるメカニズムを明らかにすることは、今後の多様化社会を実現するために必要不可欠な技術となるでしょう。