Papers
14
Total Citations
387
H-Index
8
About
Reo Matsumura is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction, specializing in how robotic touch, nonverbal behaviors, and social presence can shape human motivation and behavior. His most influential work, with 96 citations, demonstrates that a robot’s active touch significantly encourages human effort—a finding with profound implications for education and healthcare, where robots could motivate patients or students through repetitive tasks like exercise or medication adherence. Matsumura’s research on robot whispering behavior (43 citations) reveals how subtle gestures and quiet vocal requests can enhance persuasion and create feelings of warmth and closeness. He also developed the desktop-sized “robovie-mR2” robot (20 citations), incorporating a “Kawaii” design to foster acceptance, and explored full-body sharing via wearable systems (66 citations) to enable collaborative skill transfer. His applied work includes an animation character robot that increased sales in real shopping contexts (18 citations), demonstrating practical impact. With over 360 total citations across his top papers, Matsumura’s contributions bridge fundamental social robotics and real-world deployment, offering key insights for designing robots that effectively motivate, persuade, and connect with people.
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Top Papers
- 1Does A Robot’s Touch Encourage Human Effort?96 citations · 2016
- 2Effect of robot's active touch on people's motivation87 citations · 2011
- 3Fusion66 citations · 2018
- 4Effect of Robot’s Whispering Behavior on People’s Motivation43 citations · 2012
- 5A Desktop-Sized Communication Robot: “robovie-mR2”20 citations · 2016
- 6An Animation Character Robot That Increases Sales18 citations · 2022
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- 8Does an Animation Character Robot Increase Sales?10 citations · 2017
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- 10“Could i have a word?”: Effects of robot's whisper7 citations · 2010