TY - GEN
T1 - Rhythmic attention in child-robot dance play
AU - Michalowski, Marek P.
AU - Simmons, Reid
AU - Kozima, Hideki
PY - 2009/12/1
Y1 - 2009/12/1
N2 - Human social behavior is rhythmic, and synchrony plays an important role in coordinating and regulating our interactions. We are developing technology that allows the robot Keepon to perceive and behave rhythmically, and to synchronize its dancing behaviors to music or to children's movement as perceived using pressure sensors. We present two experiments in which Keepon dances with children to music, and in which the robot's rhythmic attention and role of leader or follower are manipulated in order to examine the effects on engagement and rhythmic synchrony. We found that children can assume the roles of leader or follower in a rhythmic interaction, that followers indeed tend to synchronize with the robot's movements, and that the role of follower causes the children to more closely follow a musical rhythm.
AB - Human social behavior is rhythmic, and synchrony plays an important role in coordinating and regulating our interactions. We are developing technology that allows the robot Keepon to perceive and behave rhythmically, and to synchronize its dancing behaviors to music or to children's movement as perceived using pressure sensors. We present two experiments in which Keepon dances with children to music, and in which the robot's rhythmic attention and role of leader or follower are manipulated in order to examine the effects on engagement and rhythmic synchrony. We found that children can assume the roles of leader or follower in a rhythmic interaction, that followers indeed tend to synchronize with the robot's movements, and that the role of follower causes the children to more closely follow a musical rhythm.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326143
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326143
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72849121276
SN - 9781424450817
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 816
EP - 821
BT - RO-MAN 2009 - 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
T2 - 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive, RO-MAN 2009
Y2 - 27 September 2009 through 2 October 2009
ER -