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1 title: A Novel Greeting System Selection System for a Culture-Adaptive Humanoid Robot
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2 author: Tatsuki KANAGAWA <br> Yasutaka HIGA
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3 profile: Concurrency Reliance Lab
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4 lang: Japanese
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6 # Abstract: Robots and cultures
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7 * Robots, especially humanoids, are expected to perform human-like actions and adapt to our ways of communication in order to facilitate their acceptance in human society.
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8 * Among humans, rules of communication change depending on background culture.
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9 * Greeting are a part of communication in which cultural differences are strong.
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11 # Abstract: Summary of this paper
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12 * In this paper, we present the modelling of social factors that influence greeting choice,
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13 * and the resulting novel culture-dependent greeting gesture and words selection system.
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14 * An experiment with German participants was run using the humanoid robot ARMAR-IIIb.
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16 # Introduction: Acceptance of humanoid robots
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17 * Acceptance of humanoid robots in human societies is a critical issue.
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18 * One of the main factors is the relations ship between the background culture of human partners and acceptance.
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19 * ecologies, social structures, philosophies, educational systems.
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21 # Introduction: Culture adapted greetings
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22 * In the work Trovat et al. culture-dependent acceptance and discomfort relating to greeting gestures were found in a comparative study with Egyptian and Japanese participants.
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23 * As the importance of culture-specific customization of greeting was confirmed.
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24 * Acceptance of robots can be improved if they are able to adapt to different kinds of greeting rules.
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26 # Introduction: Methods of implementation adaptive behaviour
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27 * Adaptive behaviour in robotics can be achieved through various methods:
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28 * reinforcement learning
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29 * neural networks
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30 * generic algorithms
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31 * function regression
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33 # Introduction: Greeting interaction with robots
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34 * Robots are expected to interact and communicate with humans of different cultural background in a natural way.
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35 * It is there therefore important to study greeting interaction between robots and humans.
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36 * ARMAR-III: greeted the Chancellor of Germany with a handshake
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37 * ASIMO: is capable of performing a wider range of greetings
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38 * (a handshake, waving both hands, and bowing)
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40 # Introduction: Objectives of this paper
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41 * The robot should be trained with sociology data related to one country, and evolve its behaviour by engaging with people of another country in a small number of interactions.
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42 * For the implementation of the gestures and the interaction experiment, we used the humanoid robot ARMAR-IIIb.
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43 * As the experiment is carried out in Germany, the interactions are with German participants, while preliminary training is done with Japanese data, which is culturally extremely different.
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45 # Introduction: ARMAR-IIIb
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46 * TODO: picture of ARMAR-IIIb <!-- ![ARMAR-IIIb][armar](figures/ARMAR-IIIb.png) -->
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48 # Introduction: Target scenario
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49 * The idea behind this study is a typical scenario in which a foreigner visiting a country for the first time greets local people in an inappropriate way as long as he is unaware of the rules that define the greeting choice.
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50 * (e.g., a Westerner in Japan)
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51 * For example, he might want to shake hands or hug, and will receive a bow instead.
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53 # Introduction: Objectives of this work
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54 * This work is an application of a study of sociology into robotics.
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55 * Our contribution is to synthesize the complex and sparse data related to greeting types into a model;
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56 * create a selection and adaptation system;
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57 * and implement the greetings in a way that can potentially be applied to any robot.
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