Collaborative Robotics: Communication and Social Acceptance
Experimental Study on Social Acceptability of Robots in Japan
Professor Oka will introduce experiments on the social acceptability of robots that his team have done so far and discuss the possible impact of Japanese culture and society on robot acceptance. The experiments and the results include: (1) Social acceptance of erroneous robots: Participants felt familiarity with a robot that failed. However, the failed robot did not necessarily get more cooperation. (2) Synchronizing telepresence robot: A telepresence robot was designed to autonomously move in sync with the music presented to the operator. The synchronized motion strengthened the following two senses of the operator: (A) the feeling that the movement of the robot is the movement of the operator himself/herself; (B) the feeling that the operator is in the same room as the robot. (3) Robot selectively reacting to Infant-directed speech: Talking to a robot with a high-pitched voice, which is one of the features of infant-directed speech, tended to improve impressions of the robot.
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Prof. Natsuki Oka
Collaborative Robotics: Communication and Social Acceptance
Biography:
Professor Natsuki Oka teaches in the Faculty of Information and Human Sciences, Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. He received the B. E. degree in mathematical engineering and information physics from the University of Tokyo in 1979. After working at Shimadzu Corporation, he was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo in 1983 and since then has consistently engaged in research on artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He was employed at Panasonic Corporation in 1984 and went to Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) from 1985 to 1990. He was awarded a doctorate degree in engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2000. He joined Kyoto Institute of Technology as a professor in 2003. His current main research interest is in human-agent interaction, especially in robots that learn through daily interaction with people. He is an editorial member of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society and has been appointed general chair of Human-Agent Interaction 2019.
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