Tomohito Yamamoto
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About
Tomohito Yamamoto is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction and nonverbal communication. His work focuses on the subtle timing mechanisms that make dialogue between humans and robots feel natural, particularly examining how pause duration, utterance timing, and body motion—such as nodding—influence human perception of robot partners. Yamamoto’s major contribution lies in developing timing control models that synchronize verbal and nonverbal robot behaviors, drawing from insights into human-human communication patterns. His most cited paper (2009, 22 citations) explores how coordinating utterance and gesture timing can establish future-oriented relations between humans and humanoid robots. Through controlled experiments using Scheffe’s Paired Comparison method, he has systematically analyzed how variations in response timing affect human impressions of robot interactions. Yamamoto’s work is foundational for creating communication robots that can engage in more natural, socially fluent dialogue, bridging the gap between robotic functionality and human expectations of interpersonal timing.
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