Takashi Minato
Biographic Data
| ID | 5123090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takashi Minato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takashi |
| FAMILY NAME | Minato |
| SIGNATURE | MINATO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4071-1352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Wow, You’re Really the Champion of the ‘Resting Competition’, Huh?!”
Irony can have remarkable positive effects on human behavior. However, those effects depend on the appropriate use of irony. Existing theoretical frameworks in psychology and sociology discuss the use of irony, including its effects on emotional states and behaviors. However, these frameworks often rely on subjective intuition, rendering them impractical for robotic systems. Additionally, our investigation of prior research in human-robot interac…
Multimodal Advantage in Android Emotional Expressions
Multimodal emotional expressions play an essential role in real-life communication. Previous psychological studies have reported that emotional expressions can be more effective using trimodal channels, including verbal, vocal, and facial expressions, than those using only bimodal or unimodal channels. Although robots are expected to interact with humans, it remains unclear whether the multimodal advantage could be observed in the emotional expre…
Meet the Motivational Robot That Predicts Your Future Feelings
This study explores the potential benefits of robots having the capability to anticipate people’s mental states in an exercise context. We designed 80 utterances for a robot with associated gestures that exhibit a range of emotional characteristics and then performed a 23-person data collection to investigate the effects of these robot behaviors on human mental states during exercise. The results of cluster analysis revealed that (1) utterances w…
Effects of Demonstrating Consensus Between Robots to Change User’s Opinion
In recent years, the research of humanoid robots that can change users’ opinions has been conducted extensively. In particular, two robots have been found to be able to improve their persuasiveness by cooperating with each other in a sophisticated manner. Previous studies have evaluated the changes in opinions when robots showed consensus building. However, users did not participate in the conversations, and the optimal strategy may change depend…
How an Android Expresses “Now Loading…”
The “thinking face” is a facial signal used to convey being in thought. For androids, the thinking face may be important to achieve natural human–robot interaction. However, the facial pattern necessary for portraying the thinking face remains unclear and has not yet been investigated in androids. The current study aims to (a) identify the facial patterns when people are engaged in answering complex questions (i.e., thinking face) and (b) clarify…
Female-Type Android’s Drive to Quickly Understand a User’s Concept of Preferences Stimulates Dialogue Satisfaction
This research develops a conversational robot that stimulates users’ dialogue satisfaction and motivation in non-task-oriented dialogues that include opinion and/or preference exchanges. One way to improve user satisfaction and motivation is by demonstrating the robot’s ability to understand user opinions. In this paper, we explore a method that efficiently obtains the concept of user preferences: likes and dislikes. The concept is acquired by co…
Japanese Young Women Did not Discriminate between Robots and Humans as Listeners for Their Self-Disclosure -Pilot Study
Disclosing personal matters to other individuals often contributes to the maintenance of our mental health and social bonding. However, in face-to-face situations, it can be difficult to prompt others to self-disclose because people often feel embarrassed disclosing personal matters to others. Although artificial agents without strong social pressure for listeners to induce self-disclosure is a promising engineering method that can be applied in …
Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed
The development of robots that closely resemble human beings enables us to investigate many phenomena related to human interactions that could not otherwise be investigated with mechanical-looking robots.This is because more humanlike devices are in a better position to elicit the kinds of responses people direct at each other.In particular, we cannot ignore the role of appearance in giving us a subjective impression of social presence or intelli…
Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed
The development of robots that closely resemble human beings enables us to investigate many phenomena related to human interactions that could not otherwise be investigated with mechanical-looking robots.This is because more humanlike devices are in a better position to elicit the kinds of responses people direct at each other.In particular, we cannot ignore the role of appearance in giving us a subjective impression of social presence or intelli…
Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed
The development of robots that closely resemble human beings enables us to investigate many phenomena related to human interactions that could not otherwise be investigated with mechanical-looking robots.This is because more humanlike devices are in a better position to elicit the kinds of responses people direct at each other.In particular, we cannot ignore the role of appearance in giving us a subjective impression of social presence or intelli…
Japanese Young Women Did not Discriminate between Robots and Humans as Listeners for Their Self-Disclosure -Pilot Study
Disclosing personal matters to other individuals often contributes to the maintenance of our mental health and social bonding. However, in face-to-face situations, it can be difficult to prompt others to self-disclose because people often feel embarrassed disclosing personal matters to others. Although artificial agents without strong social pressure for listeners to induce self-disclosure is a promising engineering method that can be applied in …
Female-Type Android’s Drive to Quickly Understand a User’s Concept of Preferences Stimulates Dialogue Satisfaction
This research develops a conversational robot that stimulates users’ dialogue satisfaction and motivation in non-task-oriented dialogues that include opinion and/or preference exchanges. One way to improve user satisfaction and motivation is by demonstrating the robot’s ability to understand user opinions. In this paper, we explore a method that efficiently obtains the concept of user preferences: likes and dislikes. The concept is acquired by co…
Effects of Demonstrating Consensus Between Robots to Change User’s Opinion
In recent years, the research of humanoid robots that can change users’ opinions has been conducted extensively. In particular, two robots have been found to be able to improve their persuasiveness by cooperating with each other in a sophisticated manner. Previous studies have evaluated the changes in opinions when robots showed consensus building. However, users did not participate in the conversations, and the optimal strategy may change depend…
How an Android Expresses “Now Loading…”
The “thinking face” is a facial signal used to convey being in thought. For androids, the thinking face may be important to achieve natural human–robot interaction. However, the facial pattern necessary for portraying the thinking face remains unclear and has not yet been investigated in androids. The current study aims to (a) identify the facial patterns when people are engaged in answering complex questions (i.e., thinking face) and (b) clarify…
Meet the Motivational Robot That Predicts Your Future Feelings
This study explores the potential benefits of robots having the capability to anticipate people’s mental states in an exercise context. We designed 80 utterances for a robot with associated gestures that exhibit a range of emotional characteristics and then performed a 23-person data collection to investigate the effects of these robot behaviors on human mental states during exercise. The results of cluster analysis revealed that (1) utterances w…
“Wow, You’re Really the Champion of the ‘Resting Competition’, Huh?!”
Irony can have remarkable positive effects on human behavior. However, those effects depend on the appropriate use of irony. Existing theoretical frameworks in psychology and sociology discuss the use of irony, including its effects on emotional states and behaviors. However, these frameworks often rely on subjective intuition, rendering them impractical for robotic systems. Additionally, our investigation of prior research in human-robot interac…
Multimodal Advantage in Android Emotional Expressions
Multimodal emotional expressions play an essential role in real-life communication. Previous psychological studies have reported that emotional expressions can be more effective using trimodal channels, including verbal, vocal, and facial expressions, than those using only bimodal or unimodal channels. Although robots are expected to interact with humans, it remains unclear whether the multimodal advantage could be observed in the emotional expre…
Social Robot Interaction and HRI (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Robot (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Human–computer interaction (4 works) · AI in Service Interactions (3 works) · Emotion and Mood Recognition (3 works) · Humanoid robot (3 works) · Android (operating system (2 works)