Schedule
August 7
| Registration desk | 11:00 | |||
| Welcome | 13:00 | |||
| Plenary Talk I | 13:15 | Seiji Yamada (NII) | Human-Agent Interaction: Problems and the solutions | |
| coffee break | 14:15 | |||
| Oral Session I-1: Human Behavior in Communication | 14:30 | Ryo Sato (Shizuoka University) Yugo Takeuchi (Shizuoka University) |
Coordinating Turn-Taking and Talking in Multi-Party Conversations by Controlling a Robot’s Eye-Gaze | |
| 14:50 | Hung-Hsuan Huang (Ritsumeikan University) Sayumi Shibusawa (Ritsumeikan University) Yugo Hayashi (Tsukuba University) Kyoji Kawagoe (Ritsumeikan University) |
Toward a Virtual Companion for the Elderly: an Investigation on the Interaction between the Attitude and Mood of the Participants during Active Listening | ||
| 15:10 | Akira Ito (Gifu University) Kazunori Terada (Gifu University) |
Mind-reading communication under the conflict of interests | ||
| 15:30 | Natsuki Oka (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Ryoma Ogami (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Xia Wu (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Chie Fukada (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Motoyuki Ozeki (Kyoto Institute of Technology) |
Meaning acquisition of sentence-final particles `yo’ and `ne’ through human-robot interaction | ||
| coffee break | 15:50 | |||
| Oral Session I-2: Human Awareness for Agents | 16:05 | Kazuki Kobayashi (Shinshu Univ.) Seiji Yamada (NII) |
Shape Shifting Device to Inform Notification based on Peripheral Cognition Technology | |
| 16:25 | Ryuko Sugahara (Tokyo Polytechnic University) Daisuke Katagami (Tokyo Polytechnic University) |
Proposal of discommunication robot | ||
| 16:45 | Kentaro Ishii (The University of Tokyo) Yuji Taniguchi (Keio University) Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) Kazuhiro Nakadai (Honda Research Institute) Michita Imai (Keio University) |
Merging Viewpoints of User and Avatar in Automatic Control of Avatar-Mediated Communication | ||
| 17:05 | Yusuke Kanai (Keio University) Mahisorn Wongphati (Keio University) Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) Michita Imai (Keio University) |
Colony Agent: Tactile feedback device evokes a feel of unified with Agent in the mind of users | ||
| coffee break | 17:25 | |||
| Oral Session I-3: Human’s Impressions of Agents | 17:40 | Derek Cormier (University of Manitoba) James Young (University of Manitoba) Masayuki Nakane (University of Manitoba) Gem Newman (University of Manitoba) Stephane Durocher (University of Manitoba) |
Would You Do as a Robot Commands? An Obedience Study for Human-Robot Interaction | |
| 18:00 | Yugo Hayashi (University of Tsukuba) Victor Kryssanov (Ritsumeikan University) |
Influence of pedagogical agents’ and learners’ social status on an online tutoring task: Investigation on affective states | ||
| 18:20 | Tatsuya Nomura (Ryukoku University) Kentaro Hayata (Ryukoku University) |
Influences of Gender Values into Interaciton with Agents: An Experiment Using a Small-Sized Robot | ||
| Welcome reception | 19:00 | |||
: Honorable mention
August 8
| Oral Session II-1: Estimating User’s Intention | 9:00 | Takahisa Tani (Sokendai) Seiji Yamada (NII) |
Estimating User Interruptibility by Measuring Table-top Pressure | |
| 9:20 | Sangwook Kim (Kyungpook National University) Swathi Kavuri (Kyungpook National University) Minho Lee (Kyungpook National University) |
Intention Recognition and Object Recommendation System using Deep Auto-encoder based Affordance Model | ||
| 9:40 | Divesh Lala (Kyoto Univrersity) Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University) Yasser Mohammad (Kyoto University) |
Unsupervised gesture recognition system for learning manipulative actions in virtual basketball | ||
| 10:00 | Yongho Jo (KAIST) Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST) |
Classifications of Driving Patterns Using a Supervised Learning Method for Human-Vehicle Interaction | ||
| coffee break | 10:20 | |||
| Oral Session II-2: Social Aspects of HAI | 10:35 | Reina Aramaki (Toyo University) Makoto Murakami (Toyo University) |
Investigating Appropriate Relative Position of User and AR Character Agent for Communication Using AR WoZ System | |
| 10:55 | Akira Imayoshi (Hokkaido University) Hiroshi Yoshikawa (Hokkaido University) Nagisa Munekata (Hokkaido University) Tetsuo Ono (Hokkaido University) |
Robots that Can Feel the Mood: Adaptive Interrupts in Conversation Using the Activity of Communications | ||
| 11:15 | Tatsuya Mori (Toyohashi University of Technology ) Shohei Sawada (Toyohashi University of Technology ) Ravindra De Silva (Toyohashi University of Technology) Michio Okada (Toyohashi University of Technology) |
Social Trash Box Robot: Behavior Parsing and Goal Inferences in Dynamic Interactions | ||
| 11:35 | Yu Kobayashi (Tokyo Polytechnic University ) Masahide Yuasa (Shonan Institute of Technology) Daisuke Katagami (Tokyo Polytechnic University) |
Development of an interactive digital signage based on F-formation system | ||
| lunch break | 11:55 | free lunch box | ||
| Plenary Talk II | 13:25 | Hiroyuki Itoh (Crypton Future Media) | “Hatsune Miku” as an Interface | |
| coffee break | 14:25 | |||
| Poster Session | 14:40 | Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) | Agentphobia and Emotional Labor: How Human-Agent Interaction Contributes to the Preservation of our Humanity | P01 |
| Michael Partridge (HIT Lab NZ) Christoph Bartneck (University of Canterbury) |
The Invisible Naked Guy: An exploration of a minimalistic robot | P02 | ||
| Yu Suzuki (Miyagi University) Shunsuke Morioka (Kyoto Sangyo University) Hirotada Ueda (Kyoto Sangyo University) |
Cooking Support with a Robotic Agent -Mincing an Onion- | P03 | ||
| Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai University) Hirotake Yamazoe (Osaka University) |
Investigation of Object-indicating Behaviors ~ Between Spacial Difficulty and Robot’s Degree of Freedom ~ | P04 | ||
| Takahiro Tanaka (TUAT) Kinya Fujita (TUAT) |
Secretary Agent for Mediating Interaction Initiation | P05 | ||
| Yukari Nakatani (Kansai University) Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai University) |
Abotar: An Expressive Method of Web Communication using Appearances of Avatars Attached to Text Messages and Remarks | P06 | ||
| Naoto Yoshida (Kansai university) Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai University) |
SCoViA: Effectiveness of spatial communicative virtual agent based on motion parallax | P07 | ||
| Yasuhiro Suzuki (Nagoya Univ.) Rieko Suzuki (Facetherapie Co.Ltd, Keio Univ.) |
A method for “composing” tactile sense and its application for Human Agent Interaction | P08 | ||
| Michal Ptaszynski (Kitami Institute of Technology) Fumito Masui (Kitami Institute of Technology) Pawel Dybala (Otaru University of Commerce) Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University) Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University) |
Open Source Affect Analysis System with Extensions | P09 | ||
| Masatoshi Sato (Hokkaido University) Hidetoshi Nonaka (Hokkaido University) Johannes Mikulasch (Technische Universität München) Takeshi Yoshikawa (Hokkaido University) Masanori Sugimoto (Hokkaido University) |
Manipulation of Virtual Robotic Arm Using 2D Pointing Device | P10 | ||
| Jean-Daniel Dessimoz (HESSO.HEIG-VD Western Switzerl) Pierre-François Gauthey (HESSO.HEIG-VD) |
Two Contributions to Foster Human Agent Interaction, the MCS Theory of Cognition and the Piaget Integrative Environment | P11 | ||
| Yoshito Ogawa (Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University) Kaho Harada (School of Human Sciences, Waseda University) Hideaki Kikuchi (Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University) |
Effects of an Agent Feature Comprehension on the Emotional Attachment of Users | P12 | ||
| Ryota Nishimura (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Yuki Todo (Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technol) Kazumasa Yamamoto (Toyota National College of Technology, Japan) Seiichi Nakagawa (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology) |
Chat-like Spoken Dialog System for a Multi-party Dialog Incorporating Two Agents and a User | P13 | ||
| Naoki Yamamoto (Toyohashi University of Technology) Kenta Fukamachi (Toyohashi University of Technology) Yasutaka Takeda (Toyohashi University of Technology) P. Ravindra S De Silva (Toyohashi University of Technology) Michio Okada (Toyohashi University of Technology) |
Mako-no-Te: To Explore Side-to-Side Communication through the Intersubjectectivity | P14 | ||
| Yonezawa Ken (Kyoto Sangyo University) Hirotada Ueda (Kyoto Sangyo University) |
A Movie-watching System by Muliple Telepresence Robots | P15 | ||
| Daniel J. Rea (University of Manitoba) Takeo Igarashi (The University of Tokyo) James E. Young (University of Manitoba) |
Behavior Primitives for End-User NPC Behavior Creation | P16 | ||
| Megumi Tsujimoto (Hokkaido University) Nagisa Munekata (Hokkaido University) Tetsuo Ono (Hokkaido University) |
Evaluating How the Human’s Impression Formation of Robots is Effected by the Relation between the Robots | P17 | ||
| Wataru Kodama (Hokkaido University) Nagisa Munekata (Hokkaido University) Tetsuo Ono (Hokkaido University) |
Agents on Robots: Mixed Reality Robots with Changeable Appearances depending on the Situation | P18 | ||
| Haruaki FUKUDA (The University of Tokyo) Kazuhiro Ueda (The University of Tokyo) |
Can we perceive animacy from artficial agents? : A brain ERP study using a motion Turing Test | P19 | ||
| Yoshimasa Tawatsuji (Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University) Keiichi Muramatsu (Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University) kazuaki Kojima (Learning Technology Laboratory, Teikyo University) Tatsunori Matsui (Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University) |
Explanation for Human Sensitive Response to a Humanlike Agent Focusing on Amygdalar Function | P20 | ||
| Masatoshi Kimura (Toyota Technological Institute) Michihiro Kawanishi (Toyota Technological Institute) Tatsuo Narikiyo (Toyota Technological Institute) |
Motion Intention Recognition for Wearable Power Assist System using Multi-Class SVM and Kinematic Model | P21 | ||
| Mitsuru Muramatsu (Keio University) Yusuke Kamiyama (Keio University) Shunji Yamanaka (The University of Tokyo) |
The proposal of the agent robot design to realize lifelike motion using the rotary joint | P22 | ||
| Amna AlZeyara (Carnegie Mellon University) Micheline Ziadee (Carnegie Mellon University) Majd F. Sakr (Carnegie Mellon University) |
Arabic Accented Facial Expressions for a 3D Agent | P23 | ||
| Ayano Yoshida (Future University Hakodate) Shigeru Sakurazawa (Future University Hakodate) |
The effect of delay time for response to action on the sense of living organisms | P24 | ||
| Shigeru Sakurazawa (Future University Hakodate) Hiroko Nishi (Future University Hakodate) Hitomi Ishikawa (Future University Hakodate) |
Effect of Entrainment Phenomena to Intimacy of Firefly Robots | P25 | ||
| Takashi Omori (Tamagawa University) Kazuhiro Okutani (Nippon Chemi-Con Corp.) |
Model of Tricking using Belief on Unobservable Other | P26 | ||
| Banquet | 18:00 | |||
: Honorable mention
August 9
| Oral Session III-1: Presence for Distance Communication | 9:00 | Komei Hasegawa (University of Tsukuba) Yasushi Nakauchi (University of Tsukuba) |
Preliminary Evaluation of a Telepresence Robot Conveying Pre-motions for Avoiding Speech Collisions | |
| 9:20 | Rui Yan (A*STAR) Keng Peng Tee (I2R, A*STAR) Yuanwei Chua (I2R, A*STAR) Zhiyong Huang (I2R, A*STAR) Haizhou Li (I2R, A*STAR) |
An Attention-Directed Robot for Social Telepresence | ||
| 9:40 |
Tomoko Yonezawa (Kansai University) Noriko Suzuki (Doshisha University) Kenji Mase (Nagoya University) Kiyoshi Kogure (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) |
Appearance and Physical Presence of Anthropomorphic Media in Parallel with Non-face-to-face Communication | ||
| 10:00 | Junya Nakanishi (Osaka University) Kaiko Kuwamura (Osaka University) Takashi Minato (ATR) Shuichi Nishio (ATR) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University) |
Evoking Affection for a Communication Partner by a Robotic Communication Medium | ||
| coffee break | 10:20 | |||
| Oral Session III-2: Designing Appearances of Agents | 10:35 | Christoph Bartneck (University of Canterbury) Mohammad Obaid (University of Canterbury) Karolina Zawieska (PIAP) |
Agents with faces – What can we learn from LEGO Minfigures? | |
| 10:55 | Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) Michita Imai (Keio University) |
Enhancing Empathy toward an Agent by Immersive Learning | ||
| 11:15 | Takafumi Sakamoto (Shizuoka University) Yugo Takeuchi (Shizuoka University) |
Interaction to Unknown Entity in Virtual Embodied Interaction | ||
| 11:35 | Ryoko Shibata (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Takatsugu Kojima (Shiga University of Medical Science) Motoyuki Ozeki (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Natsuki Oka (Kyoto Institute of Technology) |
How does the continuous use of infant-directed speech to a robot influence the user? | ||
| lunch break | 11:55 | free lunch box | ||
| Plenary Talk III | 13:25 | Minho Lee (Kyungpook National University) | Human augmented cognition based on intention recognition | |
| coffee break | 14:25 | |||
| Oral Session III-3: Agent’s Functionality for Advanced Communication | 14:40 | Oh-hun Kwon (KAIST) Jeong-Yean Yang (KAIST) Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST) |
Motivational Expression on Smart Walker for Rehabilitation Exercise | |
| 15:00 | Felix Jimenez (Chukyo University) Masayoshi Kanoh (Chukyo University) |
Effect of Advances in Wisdom of Robot in Collaborative Learning | ||
| 15:20 | Kaoru Sumi (Future University Hakodate) Ryuji Ebata (Future University Hakodate) |
Human Agent Interaction for Learning Service-Minded Communication | ||
| 15:40 | Toshihiro Osumi (Keio University) Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba) Michita Imai (Keio University) |
Proposal for an agent model which has imagined human relationship | ||
| Closing&Award | 16:00 | |||
: Honorable mention

The 2013 iHAI Conference will take place at Hokkaido University , Sapporo, Japan on August 7-9, 2013.