How does emphatic emotion emerge via human-robot rhythmic interaction?

• DOI: 10.1145/2658861.2658940
• Publication Date: 2014-10-28T12:42:27Z
• Authors: Hideyuki Takahashi; Nobutsuna Endo; Hiroki Yokoyama; Takato Horii; Tomoyo Morita; Minoru Asada
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Sharing a same rhythm among different agents matures close empathic relationship. However it is still unclear how rhythmic information is transferred to emphatic emotion in our brain. In this paper, we propose human-robot drumming interaction system to investigate how rhythmic physical interaction brings emphatic emotion. In this paper, we introduce the detail of our proposed system. ACM Classication