TY - JOUR
T1 - Keepon
T2 - A playful robot for research, therapy, and entertainment
AU - Kozima, Hideki
AU - Michalowski, Marek P.
AU - Nakagawa, Cocoro
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the therapists, children, and caregivers at Omihachiman-City Day-Care Centre for Children with Special Needs, especially to Yuriko Yasuda and Mo-toaki Kataoka (Kyoto Women’s University). We are also indebted to Ikuko Hasegawa and the teachers, children, and caregivers at Ha-chioji Preschool at Omihachiman. We are thankful to Hiroyuki Yano (NICT), Daisuke Kosugi (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology), Chizuko Murai (Tamagawa University), Nobuyuki Kawai (Nagoya University), Yoshio Yano (Kyoto University of Education), Kazuhide Hashiya, Hiromi Kobayashi, Saori Tanaka, and Kentaro Yamamoto (Kyushu University), who collaborated with us in facilitating and studying child-robot interactions. Selma Sabanovic (Stanford), Robyn Cruz (Lesley University), Reid Simmons, Jodi Forlizzi, and Il-lah Nourbakhsh (Carnegie Mellon University) have provided valuable advice. This work was supported by JSPS grant #18330144 and a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - Keepon is a small creature-like robot designed for simple, natural, nonverbal interaction with children. The minimal design of Keepon's appearance and behavior is meant to intuitively and comfortably convey the robot's expressions of attention and emotion. For the past few years, we have been observing interactions between Keepon and children at various levels of physical, mental, and social development. With typically developing children, we have observed varying styles of play that suggest a progression in ontological understanding of the robot. With children suffering from developmental disorders such as autism, we have observed interactive behaviors that suggest Keepon's design is effective in eliciting a motivation to share mental states. Finally, in developing technology for interpersonal coordination and interactional synchrony, we have observed an important role of rhythm in establishing engagement between people and robots. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of work done with Keepon to date.
AB - Keepon is a small creature-like robot designed for simple, natural, nonverbal interaction with children. The minimal design of Keepon's appearance and behavior is meant to intuitively and comfortably convey the robot's expressions of attention and emotion. For the past few years, we have been observing interactions between Keepon and children at various levels of physical, mental, and social development. With typically developing children, we have observed varying styles of play that suggest a progression in ontological understanding of the robot. With children suffering from developmental disorders such as autism, we have observed interactive behaviors that suggest Keepon's design is effective in eliciting a motivation to share mental states. Finally, in developing technology for interpersonal coordination and interactional synchrony, we have observed an important role of rhythm in establishing engagement between people and robots. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of work done with Keepon to date.
KW - Autism therapy
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Interpersonal coordination
KW - Rhythmic synchrony
KW - Robot design social development
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U2 - 10.1007/s12369-008-0009-8
DO - 10.1007/s12369-008-0009-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857520097
SN - 1875-4791
VL - 1
SP - 3
EP - 18
JO - International Journal of Social Robotics
JF - International Journal of Social Robotics
IS - 1
ER -