自己開示を促進するための音声駆動型瞳孔反応ペットロボットの開発

抄録

Dilated pupils make favorable impression. Focusing on the benefits of the dilated pupils, we have developed a pupil response pet-robot for improving familiarity. This robot can enhance familiarity by enlarging pupils in synchronization with the body contact. In this study, focusing on creating an atmosphere that makes it easy to talk with the pet-robot for promoting self-disclosure during communication, we investigated the size of the pupils that give favorable impression with or without speech input. Based on the experimental results, we developed a speech-driven pupil response pet-robot that generates both a clearly enlarged pupil response and a blink that is synchronized with the speech rhythm.