Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : September 18, 2024 - September 20, 2024
Previous research has been reported that children felt like a close friend and were more likely to self-disclose than other humans when interacting with a social robot. Therefore, it is expected that it will be possible to build close relationships and develop trustworthy robots by introducing an active listening attitude to social robots, as if they were communicating with human. We have previously developed Pupiloid, a speech-driven embodied listening system that expresses an active listening attitude using only the eyes based on the talker's speech. Pupiloid can give the talker a sense of attentive listening by generating nodding movements through eye movement and expressing interest through enlarged pupils. In this study, impression evaluations were conducted for 80 upper elementary school students using the developed system. The experimental results demonstrated that Pupiloid was highly rated for friendliness and the sense of attentive listening, forming positive impressions.
