タカハシ ヒデユキ   Hideyuki Takahashi
  高橋 英之
   所属   追手門学院大学  理工学部 情報工学科
   職種   准教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2017/12/08
形態種別 外国学会誌(その他)
査読 査読あり
標題 A robot counseling system-What kinds of topics do we prefer to disclose to robots?
執筆形態 共著・編著(代表編著を除く)
掲載誌名 RO-MAN 2017 - 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
出版社・発行元 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
巻・号・頁 2017-,pp.207-212
著者・共著者 Takahisa Uchida,Hideyuki Takahashi,Midori Ban,Jiro Shimaya,Yuichiro Yoshikawa,Hiroshi Ishiguro
概要 Our research goal was to develop a robot counseling system. It is important for a counselor to promote self-disclosure of clients to reduce their anxiety feelings. However, when a counselor is human, clients sometimes hesitate to disclose intrusive topics due to embarrassment and self-esteem issues. We hypothesized that a robot counselor, on account of its unique kind of agency, could remove mental barriers between the counselor and the client, and promote in-depth self-disclosure about negative topics. In this study, we prepared two robots (an android and a desktop robot) as robot counselors. First, we confirmed that subjects eagerly self-disclosed to these prepared robots from the numbers of spoken words about self-disclosure in preliminary experiment. And next, we conducted the experiment to verify whether it is possible to expose more of subjects' weakness to robots than humans. The experimental result suggested that robots can draw out subjects' self-disclosure about negative topics than the human counselor.
DOI 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172303
DBLP ID conf/ro-man/UchidaTBSYI17
PermalinkURL http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ro-man/ro-man2017.html#conf/ro-man/UchidaTBSYI17