Groups in human-agent interaction
Effect of synchronous robot motion on human synchrony and enjoyment perception
Alexis Meneses | Osaka University / JST ERATO
Yuichiro Yoshikawa | Osaka University / JST ERATO
Hiroshi Ishiguro | Osaka University / JST ERATO
Enhancing synchronization among people when synchronization is lacking is believed to improve their social skills,
learning processes, and proficiency in musical rhythmic development. Greater synchronization among people can be induced to
improve the rhythmic interaction of a system with multiple dancing robots that dance to a drum beat. A series of experiments were
conducted to examine the human–human synchrony between persons that participated in musical sessions with robots. In this study,
we evaluated: (a) the effect of the number of robots on a subject’s ability to synchronize with an experimenter; (b) the effect of
the type of robot synchrony, namely, whether the robots did or did not represent the subject’s rhythm; (c) the effect of an
in-sync and out-of-sync robot on a subject’s behavior. We found that: (a) three robots increased the level of synchronization
between the subject and experimenter and their enjoyment level; (b) robots may induce greater synchronization between the subject
and experimenter by reproducing the rhythms of not only the experimenter but also of the subject compared to when only the
experimenter’s rhythms had been reproduced; (c) the robots in-sync had greater influence on the natural rhythm of the subject.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Experiment 1
- Method
- Subjects
- Experimental setup
- Humanoid robots
- Rhythm detection system
- Environment
- Procedure
- Evaluation
- Results
- Experiment 2
- Method
- Subjects
- Experimental setup
- Procedure
- Evaluation
- Results
- Experiment 3
- Method
- Subjects
- Experimental setup
- Environment
- Procedure
- Evaluation
- Results
- Discussion
- Limitations
- Conclusion
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Published online: 17 September 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18027.men
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18027.men
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