TY - GEN
T1 - Anthropomorphic communications in the emerging relationship between humans and robots
AU - Ono, Tetsuo
AU - Imai, Michita
AU - Ishiguro, Hiroshi
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The purpose of this paper is to construct a methodology for smooth communications between humans and robots. Here, focus is on an anthropomorphic mechanism which is indispensable in human-artifact communications. In this paper we propose a model of utterance understanding based on the anthropomorphic mechanism in the emerging relationship between humans and robots. Concretely speaking, we implement a robot interface system that applies our proposed model. The characteristic of our interface system is its ability to construct a relationship between a human and a robot by a method of having an agent, which interacts with the person, migrates from the mobile PC of the person to the robot. Psychological experiments were carried out to explore the validity of the following hypothesis: By anthropomorphizing a robot based on such a relationship, a person can estimate the robot's intention with ease, and, moreover, the person can even understand the robot's unclear utterances made by synthesized speech sounds. The results of the experiments statistically supported our hypothesis.
AB - The purpose of this paper is to construct a methodology for smooth communications between humans and robots. Here, focus is on an anthropomorphic mechanism which is indispensable in human-artifact communications. In this paper we propose a model of utterance understanding based on the anthropomorphic mechanism in the emerging relationship between humans and robots. Concretely speaking, we implement a robot interface system that applies our proposed model. The characteristic of our interface system is its ability to construct a relationship between a human and a robot by a method of having an agent, which interacts with the person, migrates from the mobile PC of the person to the robot. Psychological experiments were carried out to explore the validity of the following hypothesis: By anthropomorphizing a robot based on such a relationship, a person can estimate the robot's intention with ease, and, moreover, the person can even understand the robot's unclear utterances made by synthesized speech sounds. The results of the experiments statistically supported our hypothesis.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2000.892519
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2000.892519
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881088713
SN - 078036273X
SN - 9780780362734
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 334
EP - 339
BT - Proceedings - 9th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2000
T2 - 9th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, IEEE RO-MAN 2000
Y2 - 27 September 2000 through 29 September 2000
ER -