Hayashi, Kotaro

Japanese

Affiliation	Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Title	Assistant professor
Fields of Research	Human-robot interaction / Cognitive science / Sociology
Degree	Doctor of Engineering (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Academic Societies	Robotics Society of Japan
E-mail	hayashik@cs Please append ".tut.ac.jp" to the end of the address above.
Laboratory website URL	http://www.aisl.cs.tut.ac.jp/
Researcher information URL（researchmap）	Researcher information

Research

It is becoming more and more important to be present in both people and robots in close proximity day by day.Not only in the factory but also in the home, it becomes commonplace that we live together. What does make people and robots "We"? I focus on "social cues" which people are using in the daily communication and I try to clarify the essence of "human-likeness." Dolls may have given a weird impression to people even if these are elaborately made.　Where do people get the impression from? What are people seeing not only appearance but also? I focus on the "Social cues" : the very small cues spontaneously help communication of pepole. I research what happen a robot use these cues in the Human-robot interaction through the development of the system that can observe and analyze these of people.

Theme1：The behavior which robots should have in the real environment

Overview

Field experiment in a mall

It is difficult to predict what will happen in the real environment with people in contrast to the controlled environment such as the factory or the warehouse. However, a robot in the real environment must respond to the unexpected events. To make robots do it, I research the Technogym senses behaviors of people and the robot system respond to the interaction in the real environment.

Selected publications and works

Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda & Norihiro Hagita, "Friendly Patrolling: A Model of Natural Encounters," In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS2011), p. 18, 2011
Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda & Norihiro Hagita "Who is appropriate? A robot, human and mascot perform three troublesome tasks," In 19th International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN2010), pp. 348–354, 2010
doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2010.5598661
Kotaro Hayashi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tsukasa Ogasawara & Norihiro Hagita, "Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium," In Proceeding of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI2007), pp. 137–144, 2007
doi:10.1145/1228716.1228735
Kotaro Hayashi, Takayuki Kanda, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro & Norihiro Hagita, "Robot manzai - robots’ conversation as a passive social medium," In 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2005). pp. 456–462, 2005.
doi:10.1109/ICHR.2005.1573609

Keywords

Human-Robot interaction / Field robotics / Human facter

Theme2：The "Human-likeness" on the Human-robot collaboration

Overview

Go/NoGo task experiment by a person and a robot

Robots can be modified to the best shape fixed to the task. In the human-robot collaboration, what shape the robots must have? I research the "Human-likeness" that robots needs in the human-robot collaboration.

Selected publications and works

Kotaro Hayashi, & Ikuo Mizuuchi, "Investigation of Joint action: Eye Blinking Behavior Improving Human-Robot Collaboration," In Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp.1133--1139, 2017

Keywords

Human-Robot interaction / Human-Robot Collaboration / Human facter / Social cue

Theme3：The behavior of the robot to go Into the human community

Overview

The image of the robot in the human community

The communities such as hospitals, companies and schools wants robots to play do many tasks. How must a robot do to become not so much a tool but a member of the community. By putting robots in a community of people with same roles and using the knowledge of the ethnology, I research the mechanism that a existence become a member of a community.

Selected publications and works

Iris Howley ,Takayuki Kanda, Kotaro Hayashi & Carolyn Rosé, "Effects of social presence and social role on help-seeking and learning," In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI2014), pp. 415–422, 2014.
doi:10.1145/2559636.2559667

Keywords

Human-robot interaction / Ethnology / linguistics

Title of class

Laboratory Experiments in Computer Science and Engineering

Others (Awards, Committees, Board members)

In Proceeding of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction – (HRI ’07) best paper