Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
Toward the achievement of natural attentive listening using an android, a nodding synchrony behavior with a human talker is an effective nonverbal behavior from the finding of several works. In addition, according to the related work, a human listener’s eyeblinks synchronizes with an android talker’s one in face-to-face communication. Here, we hypothesize if an android which is in the role of a listener imitates eyeblinks and nodding simultaneously a human’s one in face-to-face communication, the android can act more attentive listening behavior. In this paper, we propose a method to imitate human eyeblinks and nodding using an android to synchronize the human’s one. Through the experiment, we confirmed that the android can generate the imitation behaviors of human eyeblinks and nodding.
