Tatsuyuki Kawamura
Papers
7
Total Citations
81
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About
Tatsuyuki Kawamura investigates the critical challenge of social presence in human-robot interaction, focusing on how communication robots—particularly robotic salespeople—can overcome being ignored by customers. His research demonstrates that a robot’s perceived awareness of human attention is fundamental to successful engagement. In his highly cited work, “That Robot Stared Back at Me!” (19 citations), he showed that robots demonstrating perceptual ability dramatically improve interaction outcomes. Kawamura’s contributions extend to developing a multi-degree-of-freedom “tongue robot” (12 citations), showcasing his versatility in both social robotics and biomimetic mechanism design. His 2018 study on customer attitudes during initial interactions (17 citations) established foundational insights for deploying robotic salespersons in real-world shops, particularly in Japan. More recently, his 2024 work on perceptive recommendation robots (5 citations) advances the field by enabling robots to tailor product suggestions based on customers’ nonverbal cues. Through state-transition modeling and crowdsourced control approaches, Kawamura has systematically addressed the persistent problem of weak social presence that limits autonomous robot effectiveness, making his work essential reading for researchers developing socially capable service robots.
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- 4Mechanism and control of tongue robot12 citations · 2005
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