Host: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
There are a lot of sorts of ways and devices to telecommunicate in these days. People are able to communicate to anyone anytime anywhere if they would like to. Meanwhile people cann't always perceive cell phone ringing or e-mail arrival. If people feel asleep, their drowsiness may cause them to ignore the notification. If people don't carry or hold a cell phone nearby, they cann't catch the notification. Meanwhile, robots are physical embodiment agents and can move and touch people or objects. Our study adopts the robots' special features in order to assist to let them perceive some notices from telecommunication devices: cellphones, PC and so on. Active Touch communication Robot (AcToR) utilizes touch information instead of visual and auditory information to inform some notifications from telecommunication devices The experiments were performed to confirm whether the touch communication could be valid to inform some notification. The result showed there was a possibility that the touch communication was one of the effective communication tools.
