University of Tsukuba

Fumihide Tanaka Laboratory

Selected publications on topical categories are listed below with pdf links. Representative publications are listed in bold letters.

1. Early Works on Robot and Children
2. Care-Receiving Robot, Educational Robot
3. Telepresence
4. Multitask (Lifelong) Reinforcement Learning
5. Uncategorized Recent Works (incl. SMR)
6. Other Works

Early Works on Robot and Children

• Morana Alač, Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka: When a Robot is Social: Spatial Arrangements and Multimodal Semiotic Engagement in the Practice of Social Robotics, Social Studies of Science, Vol.41(6), pp.893-926, 2011 [pdf, 2.2MB]
• Fumihide Tanaka and Javier R. Movellan: A Barebones Communicative Robot based on Social Contingency and Infomax Control, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2008), pp.33-34, Munich, Germany, August 2008 [pdf, 64KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Aaron Cicourel, Javier R. Movellan: Socialization between Toddlers and Robots at an Early Childhood Education Center, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), Vol.104(46), pp.17954-17958, 2007 [pdf, 801KB]
• Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Ian R. Fasel, Cynthia Taylor, Paul Ruvolo, Micah Eckhardt: The RUBI Project: a Progress Report, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007), pp.333-339, Arlington, USA, March 2007 [pdf, 1.7MB, ACM DL]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan: Behavior Analysis of Children’s Touch on a Small Humanoid Robot: Long-term Observation at a Daily Classroom over Three Months, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), pp.753-756, Hatfield, UK, September 2006 [pdf, 220KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenberry, Kazuki Aisaka: Daily HRI Evaluation at a Classroom Environment: Reports from Dance Interaction Experiments, Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), pp.3-9, Salt Lake City, USA, March 2006 [pdf, 884KB, ACM DL]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Bret Fortenberry, Kazuki Aisaka, Javier R. Movellan: Developing Dance Interaction between QRIO and Toddlers in a Classroom Environment: Plans for the First Steps, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2005), pp.223-228, Nashville, USA, August 2005 [pdf, 477KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Javier R. Movellan, Fumihide Tanaka, Bret Fortenberry, Kazuki Aisaka: The RUBI/QRIO Project: Origins, Principles, and First Steps, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2005), pp.80-86, Osaka, Japan, July 2005 [pdf, 765KB, IEEE Xplore]

Care-Receiving Robot, Educational Robot

• Tony Belpaeme, James Kennedy, Aditi Ramachandran, Brian Scassellati, Fumihide Tanaka: Social Robots for Education: a Review, Science Robotics, Vol.3(21), eaat5954, 2018 [pdf, 318KB]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Shizuko Matsuzoe: A Self-Competitive Method for the Development of an Educational Robot for Children, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2016), pp.2927-2933, Daejeon, Korea, October 2016 [pdf, 5.2MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Kyosuke Isshiki, Fumiki Takahashi, Manabu Uekusa, Rumiko Sei, Kaname Hayashi: Pepper Learns Together with Children: Development of an Educational Application, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2015), pp.270-275, Seoul, Korea, November 2015 [pdf, 1.07MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Shizuko Matsuzoe, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Fumihide Tanaka: Learning English Words with the Aid of an Autonomous Care-Receiving Robot in a Children’s Group Activity, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2014), pp.802-807, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 2014 [pdf, 1.6MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Shizuko Matsuzoe, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Fumihide Tanaka: Progressive Development of an Autonomous Robot for Children through Parallel Comparison of Two Robots, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014), Late-Breaking Reports, pp.244-245, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014 [pdf, 68KB, ACM DL]
• Shizuko Matsuzoe, Fumihide Tanaka: How Smartly Should Robots Behave?: Comparative Investigation on the Learning Ability of a Care-Receiving Robot, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012), pp.339-344, Paris, France, September 2012 [pdf, 1.7MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Shizuko Matsuzoe: Children Teach a Care-Receiving Robot to Promote Their Learning: Field Experiments in a Classroom for Vocabulary Learning, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol.1(1), pp.78-95, 2012 [pdf, 280KB]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Shizuko Matsuzoe: Learning Verbs by Teaching a Care-Receiving Robot by Children: an Experimental Report, Proceedings of 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Late-Breaking Reports, pp.253-254, Boston, USA, March 2012 [pdf, 230KB, ACM DL]
• Madhumita Ghosh, Fumihide Tanaka: The Impact of Different Competence Levels of Care-Receiving Robot on Children, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), pp.2409-2415, San Francisco, USA, September 2011 [IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Madhumita Ghosh: The Implementation of Care-Receiving Robot at an English Learning School for Children, Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), Late-Breaking Reports, pp.265-266, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011 [pdf, 153KB, ACM DL]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Takeshi Kimura: Care-Receiving Robot as a Tool of Teachers in Child Education, Interaction Studies, Vol.11(2), pp.263-268, 2010 [draft pdf, 90KB] [publisher’s page]
• Fumihide Tanaka and Takeshi Kimura: The Use of Robots in Early Education: a Scenario based on Ethical Consideration, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2009), pp.558-560, Toyama, Japan, September 2009 [pdf, 263KB, IEEE Xplore]

Telepresence

• Dante Arroyo, Fumihide Tanaka: A Time-based Strategy for the Transition of Control in Telepresence Robots, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), pp.342-347, Nanjing, China, August 2018 [pdf, 707KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Hirokazu Yoshida, Fumihide Tanaka: Maintaining the Presence of Remote Speakers on Telepresence Robots by Visual Morphing to Reduce Loneliness, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), pp.404-409, Nanjing, China, August 2018 [pdf, 549KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Dante Arroyo, Yuichi Ishiguro, Fumihide Tanaka: Design of a Home Telepresence Robot System for Supporting Childcare, Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), pp.131-134, Portland, USA, February 2017 [pdf, 1.1MB]
• Erina Okamura, Fumihide Tanaka: A Pilot Study about Remote Teaching by Elderly People to Children over a Two-way Telepresence Robot System, Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), pp.489-490, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2016 [draft pdf, 129KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi, Shizuko Matsuzoe, Nao Tazawa, Masahiko Morita: Telepresence Robot Helps Children in Communicating with Teachers who Speak a Different Language, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014), pp.399-406, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014 [pdf, 1.1MB]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi, Shizuko Matsuzoe, Nao Tazawa, Masahiko Morita: Child-Operated Telepresence Robot: a Field Trial Connecting Classrooms between Australia and Japan, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), pp.5896-5901, Tokyo, Japan, November 2013 [pdf, 1.6MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Morita: Tricycle-style Operation Interface for Children to Control a Telepresence Robot, Advanced Robotics, Vol.27(17), pp.1375-1384, 2013 [draft pdf, 1.3MB] [published version, 938KB]
• Toshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Morita, Fumihide Tanaka: Evaluation of a Tricycle-Style Teleoperational Interface for Children: a Comparative Experiment with a Video Game Controller, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2012), pp.334-338, Paris, France, September 2012 [pdf, 1.7MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi: A Tricycle-Style Teleoperational Interface that Remotely Controls a Robot for Classroom Children, Proceedings of 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Late-Breaking Reports, pp.255-256, Boston, USA, March 2012 [pdf, 282KB, ACM DL]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Toshimitsu Takahashi: Linking Children by Telerobotics: Experimental Field and the First Target, Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), Late-Breaking Reports, pp.267-268, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011 [pdf, 251KB, ACM DL]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Tomoyuki Noda: Telerobotics Connecting Classrooms between Japan and US: a Project Overview, Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2010), pp.197-198, Viareggio, Italy, September 2010 [pdf, 136KB, IEEE Xplore]

Multitask (Lifelong) Reinforcement Learning

• Fumihide Tanaka, Masayuki Yamamura: Exploiting Value Statistics for Similar Continuing Tasks, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2003), pp.271-276, Millbrae, USA, October 2003 [pdf, 309KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Masayuki Yamamura: Multitask Reinforcement Learning on the Distribution of MDPs, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 2003), pp.1108-1113, Kobe, Japan, July 2003 [pdf, 341KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Masayuki Yamamura: An Approach to Lifelong Reinforcement Learning through Multiple Environments, Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Learning Robots (EWLR-6), pp.93-99, Brighton, UK, August 1997 [pdf, 171KB]

Uncategorized Recent Works (incl. SMR)

• Yohei Noguchi, Yijie Guo, Fumihide Tanaka: A Plug-In Weight-Shifting Module That Adds Emotional Expressiveness to Inanimate Objects in Handheld Interaction, accepted, ICRA 2023
• Youchan Yim, Yohei Noguchi, Fumihide Tanaka: A wearable soft robot that can alleviate the pain and fear of the wearer, Scientific Reports, Vol.12, Article No.17003, 2022 [pdf available at here]
• Yohei Noguchi, Hiroko Kamide, Fumihide Tanaka: Weight Shift Movements of a Social Mediator Robot Make It Being Recognized as Serious and Suppress Anger, Revenge and Avoidance Motivation of the User, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Vol.9:790209, 2022 [pdf available at here]
• Denis Peña, Fumihide Tanaka: Human Perception of Social Robot’s Emotional States via Facial and Thermal Expressions, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol.9(4), Article No.26, 2020 [pdf available at ACM DL here]
• Yohei Noguchi, Hiroko Kamide, Fumihide Tanaka: Personality Traits for a Social Mediator Robot Encouraging Elderly Self-Disclosure on Loss Experiences, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol.9(3), Article No.17, 2020 [pdf available at ACM DL here]
• Yohei Noguchi, Fumihide Tanaka: OMOY: a Handheld Robotic Gadget that Shifts its Weight to Express Emotions and Intentions, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), Paper No.646, Honolulu, USA, April 2020 [pdf available at ACM DL here] [html version here]
• Yijie Guo, Fumihide Tanaka: Robot that Sweats to Remind the Elderly of High-temperature, Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), pp.221-223, Cambridge, UK, March 2020 [Honorable Mention (6/183)] [pdf available at ACM DL here]
• Yuki Kubota, Fumihide Tanaka: Robot that Expresses Human Pains by Deformations, Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), pp.320-321, Cambridge, UK, March 2020 [pdf available at ACM DL here]
• Hikaru Senbonmatsu, Fumihide Tanaka: Robot with an Olfactory Display: Decorating its Movements by Smells, Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), in press, New Delhi, India, October 2019 [final draft, 534KB]
• Denis Peña, Fumihide Tanaka: Validation of the Design of a Robot to Study the Thermo-Emotional Expression, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2018), pp.75-85, Qingdao, China, November 2018 [pdf, 1.13MB]
• Yohei Noguchi, Hiroko Kamide, Fumihide Tanaka: Effects on the Self-disclosure of Elderly People by Using a Robot Which Intermediates Remote Communication, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), pp.612-617, Nanjing, China, August 2018 [pdf, 1.25MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Erina Okamura, Fumihide Tanaka: Design of a Robot that is Capable of High Fiving with Humans, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017), pp.704-711, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2017 [pdf, 1.58MB, IEEE Xplore]
• Yohei Noguchi, Fumihide Tanaka: A Pilot Study Investigating Self-Disclosure by Elderly Participants in Agent-Mediated Communication, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017), pp.29-34, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2017 [pdf, 870KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Yoshihiro Ichikawa, Satsuki Ayaya, Shinichiro Kumagaya, Fumihide Tanaka: Investigating Self-disclosure and the Amount of Speaking in an Online Meeting Under the Rule of Casual Talking and Casual Listening, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2017), pp.68-73, Nice, France, March 2017 [pdf available at here, 1.25MB]
• Yohei Noguchi, Fumihide Tanaka: A Shared-Agent System for Encouraging Remote Communication over Three Generations: The First Prototype, Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), pp.229-230, Vienna, Austria, March 2017 [pdf, 3.72MB, ACM DL]
• Tsubasa Kasai, Erina Okamura, Fumihide Tanaka: Studying Coevolution between Social Robots and their Stakeholders, Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), pp.157-158, Vienna, Austria, March 2017 [pdf, 83KB, ACM DL]

Other Works

• Yoshihiro Ichikawa, Fumihide Tanaka: Displaying Speeches Method for Non-Crosstalk Online Agent, Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, pp.354-355, Stanford, USA, March 2016 [pdf, 1.1MB]
• Toshimitsu Takahashi, Masahiko Morita, Fumihide Tanaka: Operational Feedback Considering Social Contingency for Robot Teleoperation, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2011), pp.234-239, Phuket, Thailand, December 2011 [pdf, 801KB, IEEE Xplore]
• Vincent Berenz, Fumihide Tanaka, Kenji Suzuki: Autonomous Battery Management for Mobile Robots based on Risk and Gain Assessment, Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol.37(3), pp.217-237, 2011 [pdf, 4.5MB]
• Hiroshi Kawata, Fumihide Tanaka, Atsuo Suemitsu, Masahiko Morita: Practical Surface EMG Pattern Classification by Using a Selective Desensitization Neural Network, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2010), pp.42-49, Sydney, Australia, November 2010 [pdf, 691KB]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Kuniaki Noda, Tsutomu Sawada, Masahiro Fujita: Associated Emotion and its Expression in an Entertainment Robot QRIO, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2004), pp.499-504, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 2004 [pdf, 466KB]
• Fumihide Tanaka, Hirotaka Suzuki: Dance Interaction with QRIO: a Case Study for Non-Boring Interaction by Using an Entrainment Ensemble Model, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2004), pp.419-424, Kurashiki, Japan, September 2004 [pdf, 289KB, IEEE Xplore]

(Updated on October 26, 2019)