Self-introducing interface for helping user's learning

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25700024
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: OSAWA Hirotaka 筑波大学, システム情報系, 助教 (10589641)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ヒューマンエージェントインタラクション / 擬人化 / ヒューマンインタフェース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We created a self-introduction interface that explains the agent itself as an agent in order to help users' learning for features on appliances. In the self-introduction interface, the device behaves as agent and explains its own function instead of passing through agent's third party's viewpoint between the learner and the device. The anthropomorphic triggers are attached on the appliances, and make an expression for helping learning of users. We investigated what expressions should be installed to promote understanding of users, and obtained a model of agentization. We also evaluated the results using participants from children and elderly people. The result revealed what kind of process is based on the user's motivation for learning through self-introduction interface.

Free Research Field

ヒューマンエージェントインタラクション