Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
Recently a communication robot is being focused on more than ever. While people are communicating with a robot, people are impressed by the appearance of the robot as well as the conversation itself. The appearance includes size, color, shape and looks of the robot. In this research, height is focused as one of the elements of appearance of a robot. We investigated that the impression changed according to the height of a robot, while a user is having conversation with the robot. An original robot, Multi-legged Giant Yardwalker(MGY) is used for the experiments. MGY is able to change its height. The terms such as ’affinity’, ’presence’, ’conversableness’, and ’listenability’ are investigated. Three levels of height, 10%, 45%, and 70% of users’ height were used in the investigation. As a result, 70% got the best result for every item.
