Geminoid Studies: Science and Technologies for Humanlike Teleoperated Androids (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Development of an android system integrated with sensor networks.- Building artificial humans to understand humans.- Androids as a telecommunication medium with a humanlike presence.- Generating natural motion in an android by mapping human motion.- Evaluation of formant-based lip motion generation in teleoperated humanoid robots.- Analysis of head motions and speech, and head motion control in an android robot.- Generation of head motion during dialogue speech, and evaluation in humanoid robots.- Uncanny Valley of androids and the Lateral Inhibition Hypothesis.- Evaluation of robot appearance using a brain science technique.- Persistence of the Uncanny Valley.- Can a teleoperated android represent personal presence? - A case study with children.- Cues that trigger social transmission of disinhibition in young children.- Effects of observing eye contact between a robot and another person.- Can an android persuade you?.- Attitude change induced by different appearances of interaction agents.- Do robot appearance and speech affect people's attitude? Evaluation through the Ultimatum Game.- Isolation of physical traits and conversational content for personality design.- Body Ownership Transfer to a teleoperated android.- Effect of perspective change on Body Ownership Transfer.- Body Ownership Transfer by social interaction.- Exploring minimal requirement for Body Ownership Transfer by brain-computer interface.- Regulating emotion with Body Ownership Transfer.- Adjusting brain activity with Body Ownership Transfer.- At the cafe - Exploration and analysis of people's nonverbal behavior toward an android.- At the cafe - From an object to a subject.- At the hospital.- At the department store - can androids be a social entity in the real world?.- At the department store - can androids be salespeople in the real world?.- At the theater ? Designing robot behavior in conversations based on contemporary colloquial theatre theory.- At the theater - Possibilities of androids as poetry-reciting agents.