Influencing human behavior with whole-body emotional humanoid robot

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26870639
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics; Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Destephe Matthieu 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, その他(招聘研究員) (90625873)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: robot / gait / emotion

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As the emotional gait is a critical information, emotion information influences definitely the ideas humans might have about the robot such as the robot's occupation or robot's acceptance in the society. The uncanny valley effect of this research is evaluated with self-reporting questionnaire. Those experiments are controlled for the cultural background but also a different perception of emotions. This is a study of the emotional gait and its effects on the body and the mind of humans. It starts from its understanding of the change that the emotions have on the human body and on the gait, to its application of the knowledge on the body of a humanoid robot in order to influence the robot’s human partner(s). Using emotional gaits in humanoid　robots have several benefits from a better and more precise communication between humans and robots but also that an emotional gait would influence human behavior with or without a direct interaction with the robot.

Free Research Field

知能機械学・機械システム