TY - CHAP
T1 - Integrating Built-in Sensors of an Android withSensors Embedded in the Environment forStudying a More Natural Human-RobotInteraction
AU - Sorbello, Rosario
AU - Nishio, Shuichi
AU - Ishiguro, Hiroshi
AU - Balistreri, Giuseppe
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Several studies supported that there is a strict and complexrelationship between outer appearance and the behavior showed by therobot and that a human-like appearance is not enough for give a positiveimpression. The robot should behave closely to humans, and should havea sense of perception that enables it to communicate with humans. Ourpast experience with the android “Geminoid HI-1” demonstrated thatthe sensors equipping the robot are not enough to perform a human-likecommunication, mainly because of a limited sensing range. To overcomethis problem, we endowed the environment around the robot with perceptivecapabilities by embedding sensors such as cameras into it. Thispaper reports a preliminary study about an improvement of the controllingsystem by integrating cameras in the surrounding environment, sothat a human-like perception can be provided to the android. The integrationof the development of androids and the investigations of humanbehaviors constitute a new research area fusing engineering and cognitivesciences.
AB - Several studies supported that there is a strict and complexrelationship between outer appearance and the behavior showed by therobot and that a human-like appearance is not enough for give a positiveimpression. The robot should behave closely to humans, and should havea sense of perception that enables it to communicate with humans. Ourpast experience with the android “Geminoid HI-1” demonstrated thatthe sensors equipping the robot are not enough to perform a human-likecommunication, mainly because of a limited sensing range. To overcomethis problem, we endowed the environment around the robot with perceptivecapabilities by embedding sensors such as cameras into it. Thispaper reports a preliminary study about an improvement of the controllingsystem by integrating cameras in the surrounding environment, sothat a human-like perception can be provided to the android. The integrationof the development of androids and the investigations of humanbehaviors constitute a new research area fusing engineering and cognitivesciences.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/77384
UR - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-23954-0_43
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-642-23953-3
T3 - LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
SP - 432
EP - 437
BT - AI*IA 2011: Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond. XIIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Palermo, Italy, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings
ER -