Shogo Kanda
Hirokazu Kato
ABSTRACT
This study proposes a communication robot that plays video games together with the user to create a fun atmosphere for a daily-use robot. In recent years, the lack of conversation in daily life has become a problem, and as a solution to this problem, a dialogue robot have attracted attention as a substitute for a human and as a means of encouraging daily speech. In this study, we propose a dialogue robot that plays a video game with a user in order to produce enjoyable daily communication with the robot. The proposed method not only controls the robot’s speech, but also controls the game development by manipulating the game characters. The proposed robot enhances a user’s enjoyment by adjusting the level of game manipulation to produce a competitive match and by speaking according to the game scene. A robot that produces speech that makes a player feel positive emotions is called a friendly robot. In order to examine the effects of these robots on a user’s enjoyment, we conducted an experiment with 30 subjects in which they were subjectively evaluated by questionnaires in two types of matches: with a friendly robot and alone. The results showed that robots were more enjoyable than playing alone.
- Andrea Bonarini. 2020. Communication in Human-Robot Interaction. In Current Robotics Reports 1(2). Springer, 1–8.Google Scholar
- Jane E. Clark, Ann K. Lanphear, and Carol C. Riddick. 1987. The effects of videogame playing on the response selection processing of elderly adults. In PloS one, Vol. 42. 82–85.Google Scholar
- Daria J. Kuss Griffiths, Mark D. and Angelica B. Ortiz de Gortari. 2017. Videogames as therapy: an updated selective review of the medical and psychological literature. In International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM), Vol. 5. 71–96.Google Scholar
- Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith, and J. Bradley Layton. 2010. Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Mental-analytic Review. In PLOS Medicine. PLOS, 1–20.Google Scholar
- Yuta Hoshi, Yutaka Kaneko, Michihiro Uehara, Yuta Hagio, Yasuhiro Murasaki, Satoshi Nishimura, and Masao Yamamoto. 2020. Utterance Function for Companion Robot for Humans Watching Television. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). 1–5.Google Scholar
- Huang Jizhou, Ming Zhou, and Dan Yang. 2007. Extracting Chatbot Knowledge from Online Discussion Forums. In IJCAI, Vol. 7. 423–428.Google Scholar
- Tsujino Kosuke, Nakashima Yusuke, and Isoda Yoshinori. 2013. Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Understanding for Mobile Personal Assistants: A Case Study of" Shabette Concier. In 2013 IEEE 14th international conference on mobile data management, Vol. 2. IEEE, 225–228.Google Scholar
- Ryo Mashimo, Tomohiro Umetani, Tatsuya Kitamura, and Akiyo Nadamoto. 2016. Human-Robots Implicit Communication based on Dialogue between Robots using Automatic Generation of Funny Scenarios from Web. In HRI ’16: The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 327–334.Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hidekazu Minami, Hiromichi Kawanami, Masayuki Kanbara, and Norihiro Hagita. 2016. Chat robot coupling machine responses and social media comments for continuous conversation. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops (ICMEW). IEEE, 1–6.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Stefanos Nikolaidis, Minae Kwon, Jodi Forlizzi, and Siddhartha Srinivasa. 2018. Planning with Verbal Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration. In ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, 1–21.Google Scholar
- Shogo Nishimura, Masayuki Kanbara, and Norihiro Hagita. 2019. Chat robot coupling machine responses and social media comments for continuous conversation. In HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance. Springer, 482–492.Google Scholar
- Shogo Nishimura, Daiki Kimata, Wataru Sato, Masayuki Kanbara, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Hirokazu Kato, and Norihiro Hagita. 2020. Positive emotion amplification by representing excitement scene with TV chat agents. In Sensors, Vol. 20. 7330.Google Scholar
- Statistics Bureau Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan. 2021. Statistical Handbook of Japan. Statistics Japan (2021), 1–213.Google Scholar
- Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. 2019. The rise of living alone: how one-person households are becoming increasingly common around the world. 1–5.Google Scholar
- Diogo Rato, Filipa Correia, André Pereira, and Rui Prada. 2023. The effects of videogame playing on the response selection processing of elderly adults. In International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 15. 37–57.Google Scholar
- Colin Cherry Ritter, Alan and Bill Dolan. 2010. Unsupervised modeling of twitter conversations.Google Scholar
- Richard S Wallace. 2009. The anatomy of ALICE. In Parsing the turing test. Springer, 181–210.Google Scholar
- Zendel B. R. Konishi K. Benady-Chorney J. Bohbot V. D. Peretz I. West, G. L. and S. Belleville. 2017. Playing Super Mario 64 increases hippocampal grey matter in older adults. In PloS one, Vol. 12.Google Scholar
- Fumitaka Yamaoka, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita. 2006. How contingent should a communication robot be?. In HRI ’06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction. 313–320.Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Robot to Play Video Games Together
Recommendations
A Communication Robot for Playing Video Games Together to Boost Motivation for Daily-use
HRI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionNowadays, decreasing opportunities for people to have daily conversations due to the increase in the number of withdrawn young people and households living alone. The lack of daily conversation has been pointed out as a risk that can lead to mental ...
Extending an assistance robot with the ability to play board games
APPIS '19: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent SystemsThis paper presents an interactive game system integrated in a mobile robot. Our proposal enables assistant robots to provide cognitive and entertainment games to elders with the aim of improving skills like memory, reflexes, or hand-eye coordination, ...
Serious Video Games for Health: How Behavioral Science Guided the Development of a Serious Video Game
Serious video games for health are designed to entertain players while attempting to modify some aspect of their health behavior. Behavior is a complex process influenced by multiple factors, often making it difficult to change. Behavioral science ...
Comments