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This chapter overviews the studies in social robotics that deal with communication. First, we discuss how humans’ natural communication is modeled into social robots. Second, we introduce a field study on how people and robots engage in communication in real-world environments.
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The authors of this chapter give their thanks to the coauthors of the original papers from which parts of this chapter are adopted: Osamu Sugiyama, Yusuke Okuno, Michita Imai, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita.
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Choose one of the two essay topics, and write an essay on it. Make sure to answer the questions in case of Essay 1.
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Essay 1 (from Sect. 6.2):
Imagine a scene in which a communication involves implicit nonverbal interaction. Then, consider how a computational model (i.e., make a robot capable of dealing with the scene) can realize communication in the scene.
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What techniques are required (sensing, computation, actuation, etc.)?
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How can the computational model be developed?
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Essay 2 (from Sect. 6.3):
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The Three Laws of Robotics are written by Isaac Asimov in 1942: they are about human safety, obedience to humans, and self-defense. Given the progress in social robots (e.g., an example of field study shown in Sect. 6.3), what would be the Three Laws for Social Robots, if they were codified now?
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Kanda, T., Miyashita, T. (2016). Communication for Social Robots. In: Kasaki, M., Ishiguro, H., Asada, M., Osaka, M., Fujikado, T. (eds) Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54595-8_6
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