Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
Eating with others enriches our dining experience and has many social functions. However, more and more people tend to eat alone these days because it is difficult to match meal times and places with others. In this paper, we developed the mixed reality system for co-eating with a robot. In this system, a robot and a mixed reality headset are connected and people who wear the headset can see that real robot puts computer graphics food into its mouth as if eating. In the evaluation of the developed system, people over 13 years old can enjoy eating more, feel more delicious and eat more when a robot eats together than when it only talks and does not eat.
