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Presentation 2013-06-14 15:30
A Social Media Mediation Robot to Increase an Opportunity of Conversation for Elderly -- Mediation Experiments Using Single or Multiple Robots --
Toru Takahashi, Masayuki Kanbara (NAIST), Norihiro Hagita (NAIST/ATR) CNR2013-6
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) This paper proposes mediation robots as social media for increasing conversation opportunity of elderly.
Recent social media with PC, smartphones, and tablet devices yield a digital divide to elderly due to inconvenient and complicate GUI.
As a result, elderly has lack of opportunity for gaining the benefit of social media communication.
In order to tackle this problem, this paper focuses on mediation robots as interface to social media.
Comment on social media used as robots utterance sentence, further, utterance of the elderly is collected and recognized, and posted to social media.
In order to verify the usefulness of our system, we conduct a user study for comparing the number of conversation opportunities under some situations: the viewing alone, with a robot or multiple robots.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Human-Robot Interaction / Social Media / Digital Divide / TV Viewings / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 113, no. 84, CNR2013-6, pp. 31-36, June 2013.
Paper # CNR2013-6 
Date of Issue 2013-06-07 (CNR) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee CNR IPSJ-ITS  
Conference Date 2013-06-14 - 2013-06-14 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Raiosha, Keio Univ. 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Application Area of Cloud Network Robot, etc 
Paper Information
Registration To CNR 
Conference Code 2013-06-CNR-ITS 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Title (in English) A Social Media Mediation Robot to Increase an Opportunity of Conversation for Elderly 
Sub Title (in English) Mediation Experiments Using Single or Multiple Robots 
Keyword(1) Human-Robot Interaction  
Keyword(2) Social Media  
Keyword(3) Digital Divide  
Keyword(4) TV Viewings  
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1st Author's Name Toru Takahashi  
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Masayuki Kanbara  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Norihiro Hagita  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology/ATR (NAIST/ATR)
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Date Time 2013-06-14 15:30:00 
Presentation Time 20 minutes 
Registration for CNR 
Paper # CNR2013-6 
Volume (vol) vol.113 
Number (no) no.84 
Page pp.31-36 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2013-06-07 (CNR) 

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