2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Influencing human behavior with whole-body emotional humanoid robot
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26870639
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
デステフ マチュー 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 助手 (90625873)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | emotions / humanoid robot / trajectory / uncanny valley |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Causes of Carryover |
We were able to carry out experiments more efficiently than expected and saved a certain amount of research budget.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
Recruit participants to our experiments
Publish manuscripts to open access journals
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Research Products
(3 results)
