DocumentCode :
919174
Title :
A Two-Month Field Trial in an Elementary School for Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction
Author :
Kanda, Takayuki ; Sato, Rumi ; Saiwaki, Naoki ; Ishiguro, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Adv. Telecommun. Res. Inst. Int. (ATR), Kyoto
Volume :
23
Issue :
5
fYear :
2007
Firstpage :
962
Lastpage :
971
Abstract :
Interactive robots participating in our daily lives should have the fundamental ability to socially communicate with humans. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for two social communication abilities: forming long-term relationships and estimating friendly relationships among people. The mechanism for long-term relationships is based on three principles of behavior design. The robot we developed, Robovie, is able to interact with children in the same way as children do. Moreover, the mechanism is designed for long-term interaction along the following three design principles: (1) it calls children by name using radio frequency identification tags; (2) it adapts its interactive behaviors for each child based on a pseudo development mechanism; and (3) it confides its personal matters to the children who have interacted with the robot for an extended period of time. Regarding the estimation of friendly relationships, the robot assumes that people who spontaneously behave as a group together are friends. Then, by identifying each person in the interacting group around the robot, it estimates the relationships between them. We conducted a two-month field trial at an elementary school. An interactive humanoid robot, Robovie, was placed in a classroom at the school. The results of the field trial revealed that the robot successfully continued interacting with many children for two months, and seemed to have established friendly relationships with them. In addition, it demonstrated reasonable performance in identifying friendships among children. We believe that these results demonstrate the potential of current interactive robots to establish social relationships with humans in our daily lives.
Keywords :
humanoid robots; interactive systems; man-machine systems; radiofrequency identification; social aspects of automation; Robovie interactive humanoid robot; behavior design; elementary school; long-term human-robot interaction; pseudo development mechanism; radio frequency identification tag; social communication ability; Communications technology; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Medical treatment; Positron emission tomography; Radiofrequency identification; Robustness; Speech; Field trial; friendship estimation; human–robot interaction; long-term interaction; longitudinal study;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Robotics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1552-3098
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TRO.2007.904904
Filename :
4339534
Link To Document :
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