Can we feel a gaze pressure from a robot? Development of an eye-contact robot

Author

Ito, Akira ; Hayakawa, Shunsuke ; Motokata, K. ; Terada, Kazunori

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Gifu Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

31 Oct.-2 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

106

Abstract

We are developing an eye-contact robot, a head robot that can make an eye-contact with humans. The robot can move its head and eyes (gaze directions) freely in pan and tilt directions. Each eye of the robot has two cameras - wide-range and telephoto. With an image from the wide-range camera, it can follow searching objects (such as human faces) in real time. With an image from the telephoto camera, it can detect a head movement and a gaze direction of a human and mimic his behaviors. The gaze interaction experiment (between the robot and human subjects) was conducted. Some interesting results are obtained concerning the effect of gaze manipulations.

Keywords

cameras; man-machine systems; object detection; robot vision; user interfaces; eye-contact robot; gaze manipulators; gaze pressure; head movement detection; object searching; pan direction; telephoto camera; tilt direction; wide-range camera; Cameras; Computer displays; Energy management; Eyes; Face detection; Human robot interaction; Indium tin oxide; Intelligent robots; Magnetic heads; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2003. Proceedings. ROMAN 2003. The 12th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8136-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2003.1251812

Filename

1251812