Impression evaluation for different behavioral characteristics in ethologically inspired human-robot communication

Abstract

To maintain long-term human-robot communication, a robot behavior model based on the behaviors of dogs in human-dog relationships has been proposed. We apply this model to a robot in a monitoring support system designed for home care. This paper presents an improvement to the model, adding behavioral factors to show different characteristics of the behaviors. We conduct experiments to evaluate users' impressions of the robot behaviors when given different characteristics using a simulator. Our findings show that the subjects had the impressions that we expected based on the factors selected.