TY - GEN
T1 - Robots that can play with children
T2 - 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013
AU - Attamimi, Muhammad
AU - Abe, Kasumi
AU - Iwasaki, Akiko
AU - Nagai, Takayuki
AU - Shimotomai, Takayuki
AU - Omori, Takashi
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper, a playmate robot system, which can play with a child, is proposed. Unlike many therapeutic service robots, our proposed system is implemented as a functionality of the domestic service robot with a high degree of freedom. This implies that the robot can use its body and toys for playing high-level games with children, i.e., beyond therapeutic play, using its physical features. The proposed system currently consists of ten play modules, including a chatbot, card playing, and drawing. To sustain the player's interest in the system, we also propose an action-selection strategy based on a transition model of the child's mental state. The robot can estimate the child's state and select an appropriate action in the course of play. A portion of the proposed algorithms was implemented on a real robot platform, and experiments were carried out to design and evaluate the proposed system.
AB - In this paper, a playmate robot system, which can play with a child, is proposed. Unlike many therapeutic service robots, our proposed system is implemented as a functionality of the domestic service robot with a high degree of freedom. This implies that the robot can use its body and toys for playing high-level games with children, i.e., beyond therapeutic play, using its physical features. The proposed system currently consists of ten play modules, including a chatbot, card playing, and drawing. To sustain the player's interest in the system, we also propose an action-selection strategy based on a transition model of the child's mental state. The robot can estimate the child's state and select an appropriate action in the course of play. A portion of the proposed algorithms was implemented on a real robot platform, and experiments were carried out to design and evaluate the proposed system.
KW - Child's mental modeling
KW - Markov decision process
KW - Playmate robots
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893422266&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-42054-2_47
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-42054-2_47
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893422266
SN - 9783642420535
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 377
EP - 386
BT - Neural Information Processing - 20th International Conference, ICONIP 2013, Proceedings
Y2 - 3 November 2013 through 7 November 2013
ER -