Title :
The chanty bear: A new application for HRI research
Author :
Funakoshi, Kotaro ; Mizumoto, Tomoya ; Nagata, Ryo ; Nakano, Mikio
Author_Institution :
Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Honda Res. Inst. Japan Co., Ltd., Wako, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents yet another English-teaching robot, while putting emphasis on the merits which are offered by second language education to human robot interaction (HRI) research. The chanty bear, our prototype robot based on a rhythmic teaching method of English called Jazz Chants is introduced.
Keywords :
educational technology; human-robot interaction; natural language processing; teaching; English-teaching robot; HRI research; Jazz chants; chanty bear; human robot interaction research; rhythmic teaching method; second language education; Educational institutions; Materials; Prototypes; Rhythm; Robots; Speech; multiparty; second language; spoken dialogue; stress-timed rhythm;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4393-0
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
