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SUMMARY:Educational robots\,  Fumihide Tanaka
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DESCRIPTION:Fumihide Tanaka\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor\, Department of 
 Intelligent Interaction Technologies\, University of Tsukuba\nAbstract: \n
 In this talk\, I’ll introduce our past 10 year’s activities related to
  educational robots.\nThe topics include\n\n		Background R&D on entertainm
 ent robots in Sony (-2004)\n	\n		Exploratory field study of educational ro
 bots in a nursery in California (2004-2007)\n	\n		Care-receiving robot and
  its commercial application released from SoftBank (2009-)\n	\n		(If time 
 permits) intelligent interface connecting multiple generations (Current).\
 nReferences\nF. 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.\nF. Tanaka\, et al.: Daily HRI Evaluat
 ion at a Classroom Environment: Reports from Dance Interaction Experiments
 \, the 1st Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2006).\nF. 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
 .\nF. Tanaka\, et al.: Child-Operated Telepresence Robot: a Field Trial Co
 nnecting Classrooms between Australia and Japan\, Int. Conf. on Intelligen
 t Robots and Systems (IROS-2013).\nF. Tanaka\, et al.: Telepresence Robot 
 Helps Children in Communicating with Teachers who Speak a Different Langua
 ge\, Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2014).Bio:\nFumihide Tanak
 a obtained his Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2003. He worked o
 n R&D for entertainment robots at Sony Corporation\, Digital Creatures Lab
 oratory from 2003 to 2008. He started educational robot researches at Univ
 ersity of California\, San Diego (2004-2007)\, and moved back to academia 
 since 2008\, The University of Tokyo (-2014). He obtained the Best Paper A
 ward at IEEE RO-MAN 2005\, and have been an active member of the HRI commu
 nity. 
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