Hirokazu Kato — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

Implementation and Evaluation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot

Takuto Akiyoshi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Junya Nakanishi, Hirokazu Kato, Masahiro Shiomi

RA-L 2026

Hugging provides psychological benefits and is common in supportive dialogue, leading to probabilistic models for a robot's intra-hug gestures (e.g., patting, rubbing). However, the psychological effects of this human-derived model have not been adequately verified. In this study, we aimed to clarif

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2025

Modeling and Implementation of Intra-Hug Gestures During Dialogue for a Huggable Robot

Takuto Akiyoshi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Junya Nakanishi, Hirokazu Kato, Masahiro Shiomi

RA-L 2025

The potential of social touch, a behavior that uses physical embodiment, has been actively studied for adaptation to social robots because of both physical and mental benefits. Social touch from robots, including hugs, reports positive effects similar to human-human interaction. Huggable robots have

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