一緒に散歩するロボット「マコのて」における手を握りあうことの効果について

抄録

When people are walking together with taking the hand of each other, they can sense the partner's thought and intention by sensing the patterns of grasping. Platform of Mako-no-Te is sign with one-handed robot with small-scale head-appearance as its body. Through this platform, our motivation to explore how those grasping patterns are effectively communicate and building relationships between human and robot. Through the experiment, we explored that subjective evaluation when robot and human takes the hand of each other. Through the questionnaire, we examine subjective impression about the rapport, effect and influences of the interaction, intention, closeness and etc. Results showed that through the variety of grasping patterns it's potential to establish the perceivable communication between the robot and human. In this paper, we describe our concept, design, mechanism of Mako-no-Te and results of the experiment.