LAMBACHER, Stephen G.    Department   Aoyama Gakuin University  Department of Social Informatics, School of Social Informatics    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2010/01
Type	Academic Journal
Title	The extraction of symbolic postures to transfer social cues into robot
Contribution Type	Collaboration
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.147-162
Author and coauthor	P. Ravindra S. De Silva, Tohru Matsumoto, Stephen G. Lambacher, Ajith P. Madurapperuma, Susantha Herath、 and Masatake Higashi
Details	At present, the inclination of robotic researchers is to develop social robots for a variety of application domains. Socially intelligent robots are capable of having natural interaction with a human by engaging in complex social functions. The challengeable issue is to transfer these social functions into a robot. This requires the development of computation modalities with intelligent and autonomous capabilities for reacting to a human partner within different contexts. More importantly, a robot needs to interact with a human partner through human-trusted social cues which create the interface for natural communication.In our approach, the robot does not use an agent's entire body motion to generate its motion. Instead, it selects preferable symbolic postures to re-generate the robot's motion through the dissimilarity values without any prior knowledge of social cues. Our approach aims to extract symbolic postures, and through these elicited postures the robot generates the rest of the motions while its limitations are enumerated.