Title :
Reconfiguring spatial formation arrangement by robot body orientation
Author :
Kuzuoka, Hideaki ; Suzuki, Yuya ; Yamashita, Jun ; Yamazaki, Keiichi
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Syst. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
An information-presenting robot is expected to establish an appropriate spatial relationship with people. Drawing upon sociological studies of spatial relationships involving ¿F-formation¿ and ¿body torque,¿ we examined the effect of a robot rotating its body on the reconfiguration of the F-formation arrangement. The results showed that a robot can change the position of a visitor by rotating its body. We also confirmed that to reconfigure the F-formation arrangement, it is more effective to rotate the whole body of the robot than only its head.
Keywords :
position control; robots; F-formation arrangement; reconfiguring spatial formation arrangement; robot body orientation; Art; Human robot interaction; Instruments; Laboratories; Merchandise; Orbital robotics; Psychology; Systems engineering and theory; Torque; F-formation; body torque; communication robot; human-robot interaction;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4892-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4893-7
DOI :
10.1109/HRI.2010.5453182
