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Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics A

Abstract

This chapter discusses android science as an interdisciplinary framework bridging robotics and cognitive science. Android science is expected to be a fundamental research area in which the principles of human-human communications and human-robot communications are studied. In the framework of android science, androids enable us to directly exchange bodies of knowledge gained by the development of androids in engineering and the understanding of humans in cognitive science. As an example of practice in android science, this chapter introduces geminoids, very humanlike robots modeled on real persons, and explains how body ownership transfer occurs for the operator of a geminoid. The phenomenon of body ownership transfer is studied with a geminoid and a brain-machine interface system.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The materials of Sects. 9.1 and 9.2 are adopted and modified from Ishiguro (2007; doi: 10.1177/0278364907074474), thanks to Sage Publications.

  2. 2.

    The material of Sect. 9.4 is adopted and modified from Ishiguro and Nishio (2007), with kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media.

  3. 3.

    The material on body ownership transfer below is adopted and modified from Nishio et al. (2012), with kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media.

  4. 4.

    The material on body ownership transfer and brain-machine interface here is adopted and modified from Alimardani et al. (2003), thanks to Science Publishing Group.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

    Hiroshi Ishiguro

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  1. Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Masashi Kasaki

  2. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Hiroshi Ishiguro

  3. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Minoru Asada

  4. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Mariko Osaka

  5. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Takashi Fujikado

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Exercises

  1. 1.

    Discuss how we should balance teleoperated functions and automated functions in order to realize the geminoid that can work as the avatar of the operator.

  2. 2.

    It is of merit if the geminoid can generate movements autonomously according to operator’s voice, since it is difficult to control them remotely. Consider the voice-based methods for generating movements, such as head movements, eye blinking, and body movements.

  3. 3.

    Design a new psychological experiment on humanlikeness by using androids.

  4. 4.

    Discuss practical applications of androids and geminoids in the next decade.

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Ishiguro, H. (2016). Android Science. 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_9

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