Shoji Itakura

List of John Benjamins publications for which Shoji Itakura plays a role.

Articles

Kanngiesser, Patricia, Shoji Itakura, Yue Zhou, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Bruce Hood. 2015. The role of social eye-gaze in children’s and adults’ ownership attributions to robotic agents in three cultures. Interaction Studies 16:1, pp. 1–28
Young children often treat robots as social agents after they have witnessed interactions that can be interpreted as social. We studied in three experiments whether four-year-olds from three cultures (China, Japan, UK) and adults from two cultures (Japan, UK) will attribute ownership of objects to… read more | Article
Okumura, Yuko, Yasuhiro Kanakogi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Shoji Itakura. 2015. Can infants use robot gaze for object learning? The effect of verbalization. Gaze in Human-Robot Communication, Broz, Frank, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano (eds.), pp. 33–46
Previous research has shown that although infants follow the gaze direction of robots, robot gaze does not facilitate infants’ learning for objects. The present study examined whether robot gaze affects infants’ object learning when the gaze behavior was accompanied by verbalizations.… read more | Article
Okumura, Yuko, Yasuhiro Kanakogi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Shoji Itakura. 2013. Can infants use robot gaze for object learning? The effect of verbalization. Gaze in human-robot communication, Broz, Frank, Hagen Lehmann, Bilge Mutlu and Yukiko Nakano (eds.), pp. 351–365
Previous research has shown that although infants follow the gaze direction of robots, robot gaze does not facilitate infants’ learning for objects. The present study examined whether robot gaze affects infants’ object learning when the gaze behavior was accompanied by verbalizations.… read more | Article
Moriguchi, Yusuke, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Yoko Shimada and Shoji Itakura. 2011. Can young children learn words from a robot?. Interaction Studies 12:1, pp. 107–118
Young children generally learn words from other people. Recent research has shown that children can learn new actions and skills from nonhuman agents. This study examines whether young children could learn words from a robot. Preschool children were shown a video in which either a woman (human… read more | Article