The model of behavioral change induced by external self-projection using a robotic system.

Abstract

Recently, there are a lot of communication robots that are aimed to be a good human partner. We believe that these robots can also be a good tool for inducing the deep self-understanding throughout the conversation with these robots. We sometimes project ourselves to communication robots and this external self-projection helps to know about ourselves objectively. In this presentation, we would like to propose the model connecting external self-projection to behavioral alternation. Further, we also discuss how a robotic system can facilitate the behavioral alternation by introducing our several recent findings.