3 accepted papers
With the expansion of social robots’ working environments, developing strategies to mitigate their mistakes has become crucial, especially given the difficulty of entirely avoiding errors. Previous studies have explored effective strategies for robot apologies, including conversational content, yet
Kawaii, a Japanese word that means "cute," is an essential design concept in consumer and pop culture in Japan. In this study, we focused on a situation where a social robot describes an object during an information-providing task, which is commonly required for social robots in daily environments.…
When a person interacts with others who require different levels of authority, his/her gaze ratio and body direction for each person are different, e.g., a salesperson who turns to and looks at a very important person (VIP) more attentively than a member of that VIP's staff. In this study, we invest