新しい生活様式支援のためのコミュニケーションロボットの利用

抄録

Communication robots have become popular, but at present they cannot be used effectively. In this research, we examined the use of communication robots to support a new lifestyle after the coronavirus epidemic. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the new lifestyle is suggested, which people are requested to keep the certain distance, to refrain from going out and to make a habit of gargling and hand washing. Therefore, we made a prototype for the support of the new lifestyle and installed it to the communication robot Sota. By using the M-method, which is one of the design methods, the functions required for communication robots, such as watching user, giving advice, and cuddling up together, were extracted. In addition, the possibility of effective use of communication robots to support lifestyle of users was suggested by the evaluation experiment using the prototype to manage users’ health.