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Humanoid Robots as a Broadcasting Communication Medium in Open Public Spaces

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This paper reports a method that uses humanoid robots as a communication medium. Even though many interactive robots are being developed, their interactivity remains much poorer than that of humans due to their limited perception abilities. In our approach, the role of interactive robots is limited to a broadcasting medium for exploring the best way to attract people’s interest to information provided by robots. We propose using robots as a passive social medium, in which they behave as if they are talking together. We conducted an eight-day field experiment at a train station to investigate the effects of such a passive social medium.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Daisuke Sakamoto

  2. ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

    Daisuke Sakamoto, Kotaro Hayashi, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi & Norihiro Hagita

  3. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama 8916-5, Ikoma City, Nara, 630-0192, Japan

    Kotaro Hayashi & Tsukasa Ogasawara

  4. Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Satoshi Koizumi & Hiroshi Ishiguro

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Sakamoto, D., Hayashi, K., Kanda, T. et al. Humanoid Robots as a Broadcasting Communication Medium in Open Public Spaces. Int J of Soc Robotics 1, 157–169 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-009-0015-5

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