TY - GEN
T1 - Spatially mapping of friendliness for human-robot interaction
AU - Tasaki, Tsuyoshi
AU - Komatani, Kazunori
AU - Ogata, Tetsuya
AU - Okuno, Hiroshi G.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - It is important that robots interact with multiple people. However, most research has dealt with only interaction between one robot and one person and assumed that the distance between them does not change. This paper focuses on the spatial relationships between a robot and multiple people during interaction. Based on the distance between them, our robot selects appropriate functions to use. It does this using a method we developed for spatially mapping the "friendliness" of each space around the robot. The robot interacts with the highest friendliness spaces (people) selectively, thereby enabling interaction between the robot and multiple people. Our humanoid robot, SIG2 which the proposed method was implemented into, interacted with about 30 visitors, at the Kyoto University Museum. The results obtained using questionnaires after interaction showed that the actions of SIG2 were easy to understand even when it interacted with multiple people at the same time and that SIG2 behaved in a friendly manner.
AB - It is important that robots interact with multiple people. However, most research has dealt with only interaction between one robot and one person and assumed that the distance between them does not change. This paper focuses on the spatial relationships between a robot and multiple people during interaction. Based on the distance between them, our robot selects appropriate functions to use. It does this using a method we developed for spatially mapping the "friendliness" of each space around the robot. The robot interacts with the highest friendliness spaces (people) selectively, thereby enabling interaction between the robot and multiple people. Our humanoid robot, SIG2 which the proposed method was implemented into, interacted with about 30 visitors, at the Kyoto University Museum. The results obtained using questionnaires after interaction showed that the actions of SIG2 were easy to understand even when it interacted with multiple people at the same time and that SIG2 behaved in a friendly manner.
KW - Interaction partner
KW - Mapping of friendliness
KW - Multiple people
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545034
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545034
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33745828930
SN - 0780389123
SN - 9780780389120
T3 - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
SP - 1277
EP - 1282
BT - 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS
PB - IEEE Computer Society
ER -