Wearable Robotics as a Behavioral Interface - The Study of the Parasitic Humanoid

The Parasitic Humanoid (PH) is a wearable robot for modeling nonverbal human behavior. This anthropomorphic robot senses the behavior of the wearer and has the internal models to learn the process of human sensory motor integration, thereafter it begins to predict the next behavior of the wearer using the learned models. When the reliability of the prediction is sufficient, the PH outputs the errors from the actual behavior as a request for motion to the wearer. Through symbiotic interaction, the internal model and the process of human sensory motor integration approximate each other asymptotically. Key Words: wearable computing, nonverbal, behavior model, humanoid

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: ISWC
• Authors: Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, Maki Sugimoto, Junji Watanabe, Takeshi Miki
• Keywords: Behavior, Human Computer Interaction, Human Sensory Motor, ISWC 2002, Sensory Motor Integration