音声駆動型身体的インタラクションロボットKAMEの開発

抄録

A speech-driven embodied interaction robot called InterRobot has been developed for supporting human communication by generating the coherently related communicative motions to speech input. The InterRobot expresses embodied communicative motions such as nodding, which is very important for reactive motion in human interaction. However, the nodding response like magnitude and speed of conventional robot were constant, though the preference of the response would depend on indivisuals. In this paper, focusing on the nodding response of the robot, we develope a turtle type robot which makes users associate with slower reactive motion. We demonstrate the effect of changing time of robot’s noding reaction on human interaction by sensory evaluation and speech activity analysis in the interactive experiment for 12 subjects.