TY - GEN
T1 - Embodied communications between humans and robots emerging from entrained gestures
AU - Ono, Tetsuo
AU - Imai, Michita
AU - Kanda, Takayuki
AU - Ishiguro, Hiroshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2003 IEEE.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - In this paper, we propose a model of embodied communications focusing on entrained body movements. Moreover, we implement a robot system that applies our proposed model. The proposed model emphasizes that, in order to achieve smooth communications, it is important for a relationship to emerge from a mutual entrained gesture, and for a joint viewpoint to be obtained by the relationship. Psychological experiments were carried out to explore the validity of the model. Concretely speaking, the aim of the experiments was to investigate correlations between body movements and utterance understanding in human-robot communications involving giving/receiving route directions. Results showed that subjects can communicate with a robot smoothly but only when the robot sufficiently practices gestures which entrain the subjects' body movement, whereas the subjects are unable to correctly understand the robot's utterances without such practice. The reason for this is that, without practice, no relationship emerges between the subjects and the robot due to the lack of a mutual entrained gesture, and moreover, no joint viewpoint is obtained. The results also verified the validity of the proposed model.
AB - In this paper, we propose a model of embodied communications focusing on entrained body movements. Moreover, we implement a robot system that applies our proposed model. The proposed model emphasizes that, in order to achieve smooth communications, it is important for a relationship to emerge from a mutual entrained gesture, and for a joint viewpoint to be obtained by the relationship. Psychological experiments were carried out to explore the validity of the model. Concretely speaking, the aim of the experiments was to investigate correlations between body movements and utterance understanding in human-robot communications involving giving/receiving route directions. Results showed that subjects can communicate with a robot smoothly but only when the robot sufficiently practices gestures which entrain the subjects' body movement, whereas the subjects are unable to correctly understand the robot's utterances without such practice. The reason for this is that, without practice, no relationship emerges between the subjects and the robot due to the lack of a mutual entrained gesture, and moreover, no joint viewpoint is obtained. The results also verified the validity of the proposed model.
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U2 - 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222241
DO - 10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222241
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745804693
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA
SP - 558
EP - 563
BT - Proceedings - 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2003
Y2 - 16 July 2003 through 20 July 2003
ER -