8 accepted papers
Recent progress in robot autonomy and safety has significantly improved human-robot interactions, enabling robots to work alongside humans on various tasks. However, complex assembly tasks still present significant challenges due to inherent task variability and the need for precise operations. This
In this paper, we propose a system that supports operators who provide services to customers using teleoperated robots. We observed that unprofessional or lazy operators of teleoperated robots are a risk for businesses as they are likely to speak in ways that are inappropriate for customer services.…
To personalize the robot guide experience, the robot needs to detect a person's indifference and adjust its explanation toward the person's interest in topics. However, detecting the person's indifference is challenging in a museum, as we cannot use a bulky wearable or facial expression recognition…
During a conversation, the meaning of an utterance may drastically change depending on the attitude of the speaker. For example, offensive words may be used “seriously” to threaten or “jokingly” to tease. However, robots do not have yet the capacity to understand such nuance. Therefore, we have deve
This paper presents a robot behavioral model designed to support children during self-study. In particular, we want to investigate how a robot could increase the time children keep concentration. The behavioral model was developed by observing children during self-study and by collecting information…
This paper presents a new method to allow robots to accompany a person or a group of people imitating pedestrians behavior. Two-people groups usually walk in a side-by-side formation and three-people groups walk in a V-formation so that they can see each other. For this reason, the proposed method c…
People engage in social coordination without explicitly communicating when they are conflicting over spatial resources, e.g., a shop clerk who yields to customers the best place to view products. In this study, we proposed a method that achieves such social coordination with a robot. Our idea is tha…
We developed an information-providing robot for a shopping mall. It moves around and hands over flyers about the mall and when people are interested or approach the robot to obtain some information, it starts the information-providing service. During the information-providing service, it provides di…