21 accepted papers
This study develops dialogue robots that encourage users to talk with the other directly to promote relationship building among them. It is said that friendly relationships with others have a positive impact on mental health and that face-to-face communication is important for building friendly rela
Since robots are often disregarded in public interactions, many studies have examined how nonverbal cues and dialogue strategies encourage users to initiate engagement. However, the impact of robot “movement” remains insufficiently investigated. This study examined the psychological effects of movem
Since robots are often disregarded in public interactions, many studies have examined how nonverbal cues and dialogue strategies encourage users to initiate engagement. However, the impact of robot “movement” remains insufficiently investigated. This study examined the psychological effects of movem…
Self-esteem plays a crucial role in children’s psychological well-being and social development. However, traditional interventions cannot provide consistent and engaging support. Recently, game-based learning has shown promise in fostering self-reliance and social confidence. Notably, socially suppo…
Service robots have demonstrated significant potential in retail environments, with research efforts increasingly focused on designing effective robot-customer interactions. However, the collaboration between service robots and human clerks is crucial for optimizing customer engagement in real-world
Self-esteem plays a crucial role in children's psychological well-being and social development. However, traditional interventions cannot provide consistent and engaging support. Recently, game-based learning has shown promise in fostering self-reliance and social confidence. Notably, socially suppo
As artificial intelligence and robotics advance, social robots are increasingly integrated into service domains, necessitating strategies to enhance user acceptance of their recommendations. Prior work has explored how gendered appearance influences user acceptance, yet the role of linguistic featur
Teleoperated social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in society. To address the issue of their lack of influence, researchers have explored the use of multiple robots. Previous studies comprehensively investigated interactions with multiple robots, conducted web surveys, and revealed attri
With the widespread use of conversational robots, the study of their social influences, such as conformity, has become a pressing issue. Prior research involving robots has limited its focus to examining the conformity of robots that are in direct human presence. In this study, we investigated the i
Social robots are increasingly utilized across domains like education, healthcare, and elderly care. Research has examined how the robot's postures impact social perceptions, but few studies have investigated the effects of robots' bodily movements with dynamics gait variations on attributed authori
Recently, teleoperation systems have been developed enabling a single operator to engage with users across multiple locations simultaneously. However, under such systems, a potential challenge exists where the operator, upon switching locations, may need to join ongoing conversations without a compl
Effective teleoperated avatar communication requires expressing social behaviors. Gaze behavior is one of the crucial social behaviors and includes reflexive reactions to the avatar’s surroundings and intentional responses to the operator’s speech and actions. Teleoperated avatars must have their ga…
In recent years, the potential applications of social robots in retail environments have been explored. Previous studies have mainly focused on the performance of a single robot and have rarely considered the use of multiple robots to recommend products. Although a previous study did investigate the
Recent developments in conversational technologies have attracted researchers to study their applications in recommending items through conversations. It is considered that physical robots, rather than virtual ones, are effective in situations in which robots talk about items near participants. Howe
Successful cases of robot sales promotions have been increasing. Users tend to make purchases when robots properly interact with users. Most robot interactions/recommendations are created using specific products and locations within the context. Therefore, developers have to prepare a new recommenda
In this paper, we report on a field study in which we employed two service robots in a bakery store as a sales promotion. Previous studies have explored public applications of service robots public such as shopping malls. However, more evidence is needed that service robots can contribute to sales i…
Social robots are used in daily life. One of the applications of social robots is as recommendation systems. Previous research has mainly investigated how persuasive recommendations can be improved by focusing on the non-verbal/verbal behavior of robots. However, to use robots as recommendation syst…
Social connectedness is vital for developing group cohesion and strengthening belongingness. However, with the accelerating pace of modern life, people have fewer opportunities to participate in group-building activities. Furthermore, owing to the teleworking and quarantine requirements necessitated
Under the circumstances that social robots are increasingly being developed and studied in service encounters at public spaces, are they introduced into residential environments (i.e., private space)? This study hypothesizes that a personal assistant device in residential environments should wear hu…
Hiroshi Ishiguro gave a lecture to a group of young students. We employed CommU, the desktop social robot, to manage the questions and answers for the talk. We encouraged the students to ask questions anytime. Half of the classroom was told to ask questions by raising their hand while the other half…
For a safe, natural and effective human-robot social interaction, it is essential to develop a system that allows a robot to demonstrate the perceivable responsive behaviors to complex human behaviors. We introduce the Multimodal Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network using which the robot exhibits huma…