Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 20, 2022 - September 22, 2022
For the elderly, the act of “speaking” is important to maintain their physical function, and it is known that listening with nods and giving responses are important to encourage utterances. Also, in elderly nursing homes, conversations are often started when they look at images. So far, we proposed a listening system that promotes utterances by recognizing the user’s speech contents by voice input, and presenting images related to the words in speech on the display, and giving nodding reaction from the listener’s InterActor and images, and demonstrated the effectiveness. In this study, we have developed a listening system that guides gaze to the image presented by utterance using a robot that is familiar as a dialogue agent. In this development, we have developed two methods, one is to guide the user to gaze at the image while communicating face-to-face with the robot to the user, and the other is to guide the robot to gaze at the screen by the robot taking a position diagonally to the right of the user.
