Gender Effects on Lexical Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction

カテゴリ: 論文誌(論文単位)

グループ名: 【C】電子・情報・システム部門

発行日: 2017/12/01

タイトル(英語): Gender Effects on Lexical Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction

著者名: Mitsuhiko Kimoto (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR/Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University), Takamasa Iio (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR/Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osa

著者名(英語): Mitsuhiko Kimoto (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR/Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University), Takamasa Iio (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR/Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University), Masahiro Shiomi (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR), Ivan Tanev (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University), Katsunori Shimohara (Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University), Norihiro Hagita (Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, ATR)

キーワード: human-robot interaction，alignment，gender effects，interaction strategy

要約(英語): Humans tend to change their lexical expressions to resemble those used by their interlocutors to achieve smooth conversations. Such phenomena, called “lexical alignments,” are affected by gender. Even though lexical alignment is observed not only in human-human interaction but also in human-robot interaction, the gender effects on it in human-robot interaction haven't been investigated yet. Identifying whether gender affects lexical alignment in human-robot interaction would contribute to the design of conversational strategies for interactive robots for more natural interaction. This paper reveals that gender affects lexical alignment in human-robot interaction. We conducted an experiment with twenty participants who interacted with a robot in object reference conversations and referred to an object whose identity was confirmed by a robot. We developed a robotic system that engaged in object reference conversations with two interaction strategies and measured the gender effects on lexical alignment in human-robot interaction. Our experimental results showed that female participants were lexically more aligned with the robot than males; female participants used more references that were useful to uniquely identify objects in environments than males.

本誌: 電気学会論文誌C（電子・情報・システム部門誌） Vol.137 No.12 （2017） 特集Ⅰ：電気・電子・情報関係学会東海支部連合大会　特集Ⅱ：国際会議ICESS2016

本誌掲載ページ: 1625-1632 p

原稿種別: 論文／英語

電子版へのリンク: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ieejeiss/137/12/137_1625/_article/-char/ja/