著者
鳩 康彦 佐竹 聡 神田 崇行 今井 倫太 萩田 紀博 安西 祐一郎
出版者
一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会
雑誌
日本ロボット学会誌 (ISSN:02891824)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.6, pp.532-543, 2011 (Released:2011-08-15)
参考文献数
44

In daily conversation, we sometimes observe a deictic interaction scene that refers to a region in a space, such as saying “please put it over there” with pointing. How can such an interaction be possible with a robot? Is it enough to simulate people's behaviors, such as utterance and pointing? Instead, we highlight the importance of simulating human cognition. In the first part of our study, we empirically demonstrate the importance of simulating human cognition of regions when a robot engages in a deictic interaction by referring to a region in a space. The experiments indicate that a robot with simulated cognition of regions improves efficiency of its deictic interaction. In the second part, we present a method for a robot to computationally simulate cognition of regions. Finally, our model is implemented as region referring system in the communication robot Robovie and the system's effectiveness is confirmed.