On activating human communications with pet-type robot AIBO

Author

Fujita, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Life Dynamics Lab. Preparatory Office, Sony Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

92

Issue

11

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1804

Lastpage

1813

Abstract

In this paper we describe effects of human interactions with a pet-type robot, especially with AIBO. First, we describe a design concept for AIBO based on how to increase its "lifelike" appearance. By introducing statistical results of marketing, and experiments involving human-robot interactions using AIBO, we show that this pet-type robot activates human emotions effectively. Furthermore, the experiments demonstrate that AIBO helps in human-human communication. We discuss the phenomena of interaction with AIBO, and attempt to explain why this happened.

Keywords

legged locomotion; man-machine systems; psychology; statistics; human emotions; human-human communication; human-robot interactions; lifelike appearance; marketing; mental therapy; pet type robot AIBO; statistics; Artificial intelligence; Autism; Error correction; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Medical robotics; Medical treatment; Prototypes; Research and development; Service robots; AIBO; interaction; lifelike appearance; mental therapy; pet-type robot; robot assisted activity/therapy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2004.835364

Filename

1347460