RIKEN Information R&D and Strategy Headquarters Interactive Robot Research Team
Team Director: Takashi Minato (D.Eng)
Research Summary
In order to develop robots that provide casual and modest support for human daily activities, this team studies robot-human interactions such that humans are not aware of robots’ support.
Specifically, the team will promote research related to the following three themes.
- *Design of a robot architecture that has cognitive functions and conversation capability
- *Research on interfaces that enable robots to express natural behavior in interaction with humans
- *Research and implementation to integrate various functions developed by other teams into one system
Main Research Fields
- Complex Systems
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Informatics
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
- Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Biology
- Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy
- Human interface and interaction
- Intelligent robotics
Keywords
- Human-robot interaction
- Humanoid robot
- Architecture for robot intelligence
- Nonverbal communication for human-robot interaction
Selected Publications
- 1.
Taiken Shintani, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Gaze modeling in multi-party dialogues and extraversion expression through gaze aversion control"
Advanced Robotics, Vol.38, Issue 19-20 (2024) - 2.
Ird Ali Durrani, Chaoran Liu, Carlos T. Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Is it possible to recognize a speaker without listening? Unraveling conversation dynamics in multi-party interactions using continuous eye gaze"
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.9, Issue 11, pp.9923-9929 (2024) - 3.
Kazuki Sakai, Koh Mitsuda, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Effects of demonstrating consensus between robots to change user's opinion"
International Journal of Social Robotics (2024) - 4.
Takahisa Uchida, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Opinion Attribution Improves Motivation to Exchange Subjective Opinions with Humanoid Robots"
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol.11, No.1175879 (2024) - 5.
Alexander Diel, Wataru Sato, Chun-Ting Hsu, and Takashi Minato
"Asynchrony enhances uncanniness in human, android, and virtual dynamic facial expressions"
BMC Research Notes, Vol.16, No.368 (2023) - 6.
Tian Ye, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Hidenobu Sumioka, Antonia Hamilton, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Human-like interactions prompt people to take a robot's perspective"
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.14, No.1190620 (2023) - 7.
Alexander Diel, Wataru Sato, Chun-Ting Hsu, and Takashi Minato
"Differences in configural processing for human versus android dynamic facial expressions"
Scientific Reports, Vol.13, No. 16952 (2023) - 8.
Bowen Wu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos T. Ishi, Jiaqi Shi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"Extrovert or introvert? GAN-based humanoid upper-body gesture generation for different impressions"
International Journal of Social Robotics (2023) - 9.
Alexander Diel, Wataru Sato, Chun-Ting Hsu, and Takashi Minato
"The inversion effect on the cubic humanness-uncanniness relation in humanlike agents"
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol.14, No.1222279, (2023) - 10.
Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Takahisa Uchida, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
"A study of interactive robot architecture through the practical implementation of conversational android“
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol.9, No.905030 (2022)
Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Takashi Minato
- Team Director
Core members
- Carlos Toshinori Ishi
- Senior Research Scientist
- Kurima Sakai
- Research Scientist
- Bowen Wu
- Special Postdoctoral Researcher
- Ayaka Fujii
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Tomo Funayama
- Technical Staff I
- Yuka Nakayama
- Technical Staff I
Contact Information
3rd Floor, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
2-2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Sorakugun, Kyoto
619-0288 Japan (Kansai Science City)
Tel：+81-(0)774-95-1360
Email: takashi.minato@riken.jp