Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions
In order to achieve symbiosis between humans and social robots, it is not enough to simply design a robot with excellent functionality, but it is necessary to give humans a friendly impression of the robot. Rhythmic synchronization is the foundation of social interaction and unity, and it is expecte...
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| author | Hideyuki Takahashi Tomoyo Morita Midori Ban Hiroka Sabu Nobutsuna Endo Minoru Asada |
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| description | In order to achieve symbiosis between humans and social robots, it is not enough to simply design a robot with excellent functionality, but it is necessary to give humans a friendly impression of the robot. Rhythmic synchronization is the foundation of social interaction and unity, and it is expected that research on synchronization between humans and robot will contribute to the design theory of robot that can build intimate relationships with humans. Specifically, the sense of leading a rhythm evokes a pleasant emotion. If a communication robot is behaviorally synchronized with humans, a strong sense of unity with the robot could occur in keeping with their sense of leading. However, in rhythmic interactions, having the sense of leading the rhythm often differs from the actual rhythm leading. We conducted three kinds of experiments to examine whether a pseudosense of leading occurred in human-robot or human-human drumming interactions. At the experiment 1, we used an interaction task of human-robot drumming to examine whether participants experienced a strong sense of leading when interacting with a robot drumming with gradual rhythm fluctuations and whether the sense of leading the rhythm induced a positive impression of the robot. As a result, we found that a pseudosense of leading the rhythm and the pleasant emotion of drumming occurred even from the artificial robot’s rhythm, notably when the rhythm of the robot changed gradually. At the experiment 2, we also showed that the pseudosense of leading was not likely to occur in the drumming between humans. Finally, at the experiment 3, we found that the pseudosense of leading would induce anthropomorphic impressions of the robots. These findings may contribute to designing interactive robots’ rhythmic behavior to realize symbiosis between humans and robots. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-198eabd5b1724b1b8e5a36cf8ac3c5ae2022-12-22T01:32:30ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110368133682210.1109/ACCESS.2022.31637229745545Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot InteractionsHideyuki Takahashi0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9313-0346Tomoyo Morita1Midori Ban2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8944-4315Hiroka Sabu3Nobutsuna Endo4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4534-2883Minoru Asada5https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-6333Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanInstitute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanSchool of Science and Technology for Future Life, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, JapanInstitute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Osaka, JapanIn order to achieve symbiosis between humans and social robots, it is not enough to simply design a robot with excellent functionality, but it is necessary to give humans a friendly impression of the robot. Rhythmic synchronization is the foundation of social interaction and unity, and it is expected that research on synchronization between humans and robot will contribute to the design theory of robot that can build intimate relationships with humans. Specifically, the sense of leading a rhythm evokes a pleasant emotion. If a communication robot is behaviorally synchronized with humans, a strong sense of unity with the robot could occur in keeping with their sense of leading. However, in rhythmic interactions, having the sense of leading the rhythm often differs from the actual rhythm leading. We conducted three kinds of experiments to examine whether a pseudosense of leading occurred in human-robot or human-human drumming interactions. At the experiment 1, we used an interaction task of human-robot drumming to examine whether participants experienced a strong sense of leading when interacting with a robot drumming with gradual rhythm fluctuations and whether the sense of leading the rhythm induced a positive impression of the robot. As a result, we found that a pseudosense of leading the rhythm and the pleasant emotion of drumming occurred even from the artificial robot’s rhythm, notably when the rhythm of the robot changed gradually. At the experiment 2, we also showed that the pseudosense of leading was not likely to occur in the drumming between humans. Finally, at the experiment 3, we found that the pseudosense of leading would induce anthropomorphic impressions of the robots. These findings may contribute to designing interactive robots’ rhythmic behavior to realize symbiosis between humans and robots.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9745545/Pseudosense of leadingdrumming interactionanthropomorphic impression |
| spellingShingle | Hideyuki Takahashi Tomoyo Morita Midori Ban Hiroka Sabu Nobutsuna Endo Minoru Asada Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions IEEE Access Pseudosense of leading drumming interaction anthropomorphic impression |
| title | Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions |
| title_full | Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions |
| title_fullStr | Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions |
| title_short | Gradual Rhythm Change of a Drumming Robot Enhances the Pseudosense of Leading in Human–Robot Interactions |
| title_sort | gradual rhythm change of a drumming robot enhances the pseudosense of leading in human x2013 robot interactions |
| topic | Pseudosense of leading drumming interaction anthropomorphic impression |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9745545/ |
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