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Hypothesis on the Functional Advantages of the Selection-Broadcast Cycle Structure: Global Workspace Theory and Dealing with a Real-Time World
Junya Nakanishi, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa +2
This paper discusses the functional advantages of the Selection-Broadcast Cycle structure proposed by Global Workspace Theory (GWT), inspired by human consciousness, particularly f…
Influence of collaborative customer service by service robots and clerks in bakery stores
Yuki Okafuji, Sichao Song, Jun Baba +2
In recent years, various service robots have been introduced in stores as recommendation systems. Previous studies attempted to increase the influence of these robots by improving…
An Estimation Framework for Passerby Engagement Interacting with Social Robots
Taichi Sakaguchi, Yuki Okafuji, Kohei Matsumura +2
Social robots are expected to be a human labor support technology, and one application of them is an advertising medium in public spaces. When social robots provide information, su…
Decoupling Speaker-Independent Emotions for Voice Conversion Via Source-Filter Networks
Zhaojie Luo, Shoufeng Lin, Rui Liu +3
Emotional voice conversion (VC) aims to convert a neutral voice to an emotional (e.g. happy) one while retaining the linguistic information and speaker identity. We note that the d…
Behavioral assessment of a humanoid robot when attracting pedestrians in a mall
Yuki Okafuji, Yasunori Ozaki, Jun Baba +4
Research currently being conducted on the use of robots as human labor support technology. In particular, the service industry needs to allocate more manpower, and it will be impor…
3D Head-Position Prediction in First-Person View by Considering Head Pose for Human-Robot Eye Contact
Yuki Tamaru, Yasunori Ozaki, Yuki Okafuji +3
For a humanoid robot to make eye contact and initiate communication with a person, it is necessary to estimate the person's head position. However, eye contact becomes difficult du…