Development of Presentation Robot for Interaction with Small Group

Abstract

This paper describes a development of a presentation robot system to interact with a small group and a demonstration result of a presentation by a robot. Our research target is that a robot interaction encourages participation of participants for a robot presentation, and interests for a long time. In this paper, we propose a robot interaction using cards to reflect the opinion of a small group of participants. We developed an integrated presentation robot system using a humanoid robot, PC and camera. By using the presentation robot system, we demonstrate a robot presentation for high-school students and freshman of university students. We verified that the proposed method encourages participation of participants for a robot presentation, and interests participants in the robot presentation.