Object reference recognition utilizing entrainment in human-robot interaction

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25730165
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Principal Investigator: IIO Takamasa 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, その他部局等, 研究員 (70642958)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 知能ロボティクス / ヒューマンロボットインタラクション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research investigated how a robot elicited references to an object which is unambiguous and recognizable for the robot from humans in object reference conversation. The results revealed that humans tended to use same terms or same categories of terms in their references as the robot used in its confirmations. Based on the results, I developed the generating algorithm of confirmation behaviors of robots to entrain humans to use unambiguous terms. Thourgh an evaluation experiment, it was suggested that the success rate of recognizing object references may be better by using the algorithm.

Free Research Field

知能ロボティクス