Enabling technologies for social robots that understand human relationships

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25240042
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Principal Investigator: Kanda Takayuki 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 知能ロボティクス研究所, 室長 (90374107)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Masahiro Shiomi 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 知能ロボティクス研究所, 室長 (90455577) ; Satoru Satake 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 知能ロボティクス研究所, 研究員 (50510418) ; GLAS Dylan・F 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 石黒浩特別研究所, 研究員 (20426646) ; Ishii Carlos 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 石黒浩特別研究所, グループリーダー (30418529) ; Nomura Tatsuya 龍谷大学, 理工学部, 教授 (30330343) ; Yamada Sachie 東海大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30399480)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: ヒューマンロボットインタラクション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We aim to realize a social robot that participates to human society. In this project, there are mainly three achievements. First, we built a sensor network for classroom in an elementary school, which enabled us to observe children’s daily behavior. Using it, we developed a technique to recognize children’s social status in a classroom. Second, we analyze a data about “robot abuse” phenomena, from which we found that children abused a robot for their enjoyment although they perceive it a kind of human-like entity that perceives its suffering from their actions. Third, we have developed a robot system that understand children’s pointing gesture, and we empirically confirmed that it helps children to ask more questions to the robot.

Free Research Field

情報学