Abstract
This study has been conducted by participating in the Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP) of the METI, which aims at developing applications of humanoid robots. We consider the humanoid robot is effective in applications that covers the services to human beings such as elderly care, patient care, since it presents affinity to people owing to its human-like figure and motions. In this study, our focus was a situation in which the robot is expected to support activities of people in a hospital with three kinds of possible system users who are a nurse, a patient and a family member in the remote site. Taking the capabilities of current humanoid robots into account, we designed the user interface of the system which satisfies the requirements of the each three users to operate the robot in the assumed situation. Furthermore, we confirmed the feasibility of the designed system through experimental examples by integrating the developed user interface with a humanoid robot as a total system.
