Educational robots, Fumihide Tanaka
Event details
| Date | 02.03.2016 |
| Hour | 11:15 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | Fumihide Tanaka, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies, University of Tsukuba |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
In this talk, I’ll introduce our past 10 year’s activities related to educational robots.
The topics include
F. Tanaka, et al.: Socialization between Toddlers and Robots at an Early Childhood Education Center, Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 2007.
F. Tanaka, et al.: Daily HRI Evaluation at a Classroom Environment: Reports from Dance Interaction Experiments, the 1st Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2006).
F. Tanaka, et al.: Children Teach a Care-Receiving Robot to Promote Their Learning: Field Experiments in a Classroom for Vocabulary Learning, Journal of HRI, 2012.
F. Tanaka, et al.: Child-Operated Telepresence Robot: a Field Trial Connecting Classrooms between Australia and Japan, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2013).
F. Tanaka, et al.: Telepresence Robot Helps Children in Communicating with Teachers who Speak a Different Language, Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2014).
Bio:
Fumihide Tanaka obtained his Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. He worked on R&D for entertainment robots at Sony Corporation, Digital Creatures Laboratory from 2003 to 2008. He started educational robot researches at University of California, San Diego (2004-2007), and moved back to academia since 2008, The University of Tokyo (-2014). He obtained the Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2005, and have been an active member of the HRI community.
In this talk, I’ll introduce our past 10 year’s activities related to educational robots.
The topics include
- Background R&D on entertainment robots in Sony (-2004)
- Exploratory field study of educational robots in a nursery in California (2004-2007)
- Care-receiving robot and its commercial application released from SoftBank (2009-)
- (If time permits) intelligent interface connecting multiple generations (Current).
F. Tanaka, et al.: Socialization between Toddlers and Robots at an Early Childhood Education Center, Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), 2007.
F. Tanaka, et al.: Daily HRI Evaluation at a Classroom Environment: Reports from Dance Interaction Experiments, the 1st Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2006).
F. Tanaka, et al.: Children Teach a Care-Receiving Robot to Promote Their Learning: Field Experiments in a Classroom for Vocabulary Learning, Journal of HRI, 2012.
F. Tanaka, et al.: Child-Operated Telepresence Robot: a Field Trial Connecting Classrooms between Australia and Japan, Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2013).
F. Tanaka, et al.: Telepresence Robot Helps Children in Communicating with Teachers who Speak a Different Language, Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2014).
Bio:
Fumihide Tanaka obtained his Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. He worked on R&D for entertainment robots at Sony Corporation, Digital Creatures Laboratory from 2003 to 2008. He started educational robot researches at University of California, San Diego (2004-2007), and moved back to academia since 2008, The University of Tokyo (-2014). He obtained the Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2005, and have been an active member of the HRI community.
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