Acquisition of Body Image by Anthropomorphization Framework

抄録

In this study, we propose anthropomorphization framework that determines object's body image by attaching it to human-like body parts. Our purpose is that an object acquires subjective representation by anthropomorphization and it communicates with humans. Although, there are many studies on anthropomorphic agents to communicate with humans via an object, it's unnatural because these agents are unrelated to the object directly. In our method, the object is directly anthropomorphized so it can conduct task-related communication using its intrinsic body image. We designed anthropomorphization framework that changes body image by attaching places of body parts. We also conducted an experiment to evaluate this framework. The result indicates that an attached place of anthropomorphize device influences human's perception for body image.