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2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

Influencing human behavior with whole-body emotional humanoid robot

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26870639
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

デステフ マチュー  早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 助手 (90625873)

Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywordsemotions / humanoid robot / trajectory / uncanny valley
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In this research, I have developped emotional walking patterns for biped humanoid robots (happiness, sadness, anger) and studied the effects of such patterns on human-robot interaction. This research aims to improve the co-existence between humans and humanoid robots in our future society, is a very useful research. In fiscal 2014, I have accomplished the following research goals: study the reactions of people to the movements of our robot, study the effect of the movements on the perception of the Uncanny valley (不気味の谷現象), study the acceptance of an emotional humanoid robot as a worker.

By showing the different emotional walking patterns to participants (on-line and in the laboratory), I obtained the following results: emotions affect the perception of the humanoid robot (for example, it appears more human-like), the appearance of the robot is more influential than the effect of the uncanny valley in determining acceptability of an emotional robot worker.

We have developed also a low cost system to measure the position in space of humans. This system will serve to measure the reaction to an emotion robot and its effects on the trajectory adopted by humans in space.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.

Reason

Due to problems during experiments, the project was slightly delayed. This delay is currently made up and we expect to going smoothly from now on.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The next fiscal year (2015), we would like to perform more specific scenario related to emotions: how the anger would be perceived in a collaboration task and study the social influence of emotion in the choice of trajectory and crossing between human walkers and robots.

Causes of Carryover

We were able to carry out experiments more efficiently than expected and saved a certain amount of research budget.

Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget

Recruit participants to our experiments
Publish manuscripts to open access journals

  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2015 2014

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Walking in the Uncanny Valley: Importance of the Attractiveness on the Acceptance of a Robot as a Working Partner2015

    • Author(s)
      Destephe Matthieu, Brandao Martim, Kishi Tatsuhiro, Zecca Massimiliano, Hashimoto Kenji, Takanishi Atsuo
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Psychology

      Volume: 6 Pages: 1-11

    • DOI

      http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00204

    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Uncanny Valley, Robot and Autism: Perception of the Uncanniness in an Emotional Gait2014

    • Author(s)
      M. Destephe, M. Zecca, K. Hashimoto, A. Takanishi
    • Organizer
      IEEE Robotics and Biomimetics 2014 (RoBio2014)
    • Place of Presentation
      Bali, Indonesia
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-05 – 2014-12-10
  • [Presentation] Emotional Gait: Effects on Humans’ Perception of Humanoid Robots2014

    • Author(s)
      M. Destephe, M. Brandao, T. Kishi, M. Zecca, K. Hashimoto, A. Takanishi
    • Organizer
      IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014)
    • Place of Presentation
      Edinburgh, Scotland.
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-25 – 2014-08-29

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Published: 2016-06-01  

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