Utterance Function for Companion Robot for Humans Watching Television

Hoshi, Yuta; Kaneko, Yutaka; Uehara, Michihiro; Hagio, Yuta; Murasaki, Yasuhiro; Nishimura, Shigeo; Yamamoto, Masao

doi:10.1109/icce46568.2020.9043173

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“…As a communication robot with natural interaction and interesting conversation, a TV chat robot [7]- [9] was proposed to talk with users while watching TV together. The TV chatting robot can provide an environment where users can naturally interact with the robot as if they were watching TV with user's friends.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Communication Robot for Playing Video Games Together to Boost Motivation for Daily-use

Kanda

Sawabe

Kanbara

et al. 2022

2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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Nowadays, decreasing opportunities for people to have daily conversations due to the increase in the number of withdrawn young people and households living alone. The lack of daily conversation has been pointed out as a risk that can lead to mental problems such as depression, and serious health problems such as dementia for the elderly. Efforts to encourage daily communication by having communication robots that act as talking partners is attracting attention to solve those problems. One of the challenges of communication robots is the difficulty of maintaining users' motivation to continue using robots. In this study, we propose the communication robot that plays a video game together with a user as an approach to keep the user's motivation high to use the robot. The proposed method not only controls the dialogue content of the robot but also controls the video game situation by manipulating the video game character. In this system, we aim to create an atmosphere where users can enjoy playing video games with the robot together, and the proposed game communication robot can keep their motivation high to use the robot.

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“…Hoshi et al proposed TV chat robots through TV subtitle extraction, speech recognition and video object detection that objects on the TV are detected and used as keywords [9]. Next, words with high similarity to the keywords extracted from the dictionary.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Communication Robot for Playing Video Games Together to Boost Motivation for Daily-use

Kanda

Sawabe

Kanbara

et al. 2022

2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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“…Therefore, we have been conducting research and development of a communication robot capable of speech and dialogue triggered by the contents of TV programs (hereinafter referred to as a "TV watching companion robot") with the aim of creating the pleasure and joy of watching TV with multiple people, even when watching TV alone [2].…”

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Influence of Watching TV Programs on Human Recognition of a Robot's Emotions

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HAGIO,

OHMATA

et al. 2024

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Watching TV with family and friends makes the experience more enjoyable. We have been conducting research and development of a communication robot ("TV watching companion robot") that can give the joy and pleasure of watching TV with multiple people, even when watching TV alone. Herein, we investigate how emotions are conveyed to the viewer when the viewer watches TV with a robot, using a TV watching companion robot with nine types of emotional body movements developed. Consequently, we confirmed that the presence of a TV program facilitated the transmission of seven types of emotions. It was also confirmed that emotional body movements improved empathy for the program.

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