Life-based empathy interface by embodied entrainment

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26280077
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: Okayama Prefectural University
• Principal Investigator: Watanabe Tomio 岡山県立大学, 情報工学部, 教授 (30167150)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ヒューマンインタフェース / ヒューマンインタラクション / 身体的コミュニケーション / 身体的インタラクション / マルチモーダル / コミュニケーション支援 / ユーザインタフェース / 身体性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on the embodied communication technology capable of realizing a sense of unity through introduction of entrainment such as nodding and gestures into media of robots and CG characters, and the generation and control technology of embodied media that promotes embodied interaction, we have develop the speech-driven embodied entrainment technology that automatically generates communicative entrained motions by speech input, the body-linked type embodied entrainment technology that operates directly in conjunction with body movements, and the typing-driven embodied entrainment technology that automatically generates communicative entrained motions from the rhythm of typing, and have built the foundation of empathy interface.

Free Research Field

ヒューマンインタフェース