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	2017/10
形態種別	論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Huggable Communication Medium Maintains Level of Trust during Conversation Game
執筆形態	共著・編著（代表編著を除く）
掲載誌名	FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
出版社・発行元	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
巻・号・頁	8,pp.1862
著者・共著者	Hideyuki Takahashi,Midori Ban,Hirotaka Osawa,Junya Nakanishi,Hidenobu Sumioka,Hiroshi Ishiguro
概要	There have been several attempts in recent years to develop a remote communication device using sensory modalities other than speech that would induce a user's positive experience with his/her conversation partner. Specifically, Hugvie is a human-shaped pillow as well as a remote communication device enabling users to combine a hugging experience with telecommunication to improve the quality of remote communication. The present research is based on the hypothesis that using Hugvie maintains users' level of trust toward their conversation partners in situations prone to suspicion. The level of trust felt toward other remote game players was compared between participants using Hugvie and those using a basic communication device while playing a modified version of Werewolf, a conversation-based game, designed to evaluate trust. Although there are always winners and losers in the regular version of Werewolf, the rules were modified to generate a possible scenario in which no enemy was present among the players and all players would win if they trusted each other. We examined the effect of using Hugvie while playing Werewolf on players' level of trust toward each other and our results demonstrated that in those using Hugvie, the level of trust toward other players was maintained.
DOI	10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01862
ISSN	1664-1078
PMID	29118727