To explore possible robot tasks in daily life, we developed a guide robot for a shop** mall
and conducted a field trial with it. The robot was designed to interact naturally with …

Human–Robot Interaction in Social Robotics explores important issues in designing a robot
system that works with people in everyday environments. Edited by leading figures in the …

This paper reports an initial field trial with a prototype of a semiautonomous communication
robot at a train station. We developed an operator-requesting mechanism to achieve …

This study provides an in-depth analysis and practical solution to the problem of designing
and implementing a human-robot team for simple conversational interactions. Models for …

We developed a networked robot system in which ubiquitous sensors support robot sensing
and a human operator processes the robot's decisions during interaction. To achieve semi …

A simple view of deictic communication only includes the indication process and recognition
process: a person points at an object and says something about it such as “look at this,” and …

Reverberation deteriorates the quality and intelligibility of speech, leading to the poor
performance of classification systems. Room reverberation parameters depend on the …

The present paper introduces a microphone array design and describes the results of an
evaluation of the developed microphone array. We propose an evaluation index of the …

This paper presents a method for learning novel objects from audio-visual input. Objects are
learned using out-of-vocabulary word segmentation and object extraction. The latter half of …

This study explores the nature of the multi-robot control problem for social robots. It begins
by modeling the overall structure of a human-robot team for social interactions, and …