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Interactive humanoid robots for a science museum

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Masahiro Shiomi,

Takayuki Kanda,

Hiroshi Ishiguro,

Norihiro HagitaAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction

Pages 305 - 312

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121241.1121293

Published: 02 March 2006 Publication History

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This paper reports on a field trial with interactive humanoid robots at a science museum where visitors are supposed to study and develop an interest in science. In the trial, each visitor wore an RFID tag while looking around the museum's exhibits. Information obtained from the RFID tags was used to direct the robots' interaction with the visitors. The robots autonomously interacted with visitors via gestures and utterances resembling the free play of children [1]. In addition, they performed exhibit-guiding by moving around several exhibits and explaining the exhibits based on sensor information. The robots were highly evaluated by visitors during the two-month trial. Moreover, we conducted an experiment in the field trial to compare the detailed effects of exhibit-guiding and free-play interaction under three operating conditions. This revealed that the combination of the free-play interaction and exhibit-guiding positively affected visitors' experiences at the science museum.

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HRI '06: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction

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DOI:10.1145/1121241

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