As a new type of application of the conversation system, a robot activating other parties'
communications has been developed. The robot participates in a quiz game with other …

This paper presents voice-awareness control consistent with robot's head movements. For a
natural spoken communication between robots and humans, robots must behave and speak …

This paper presents voice-quality control of humanoid robots based on a new model of
spectral envelope modification corresponding to the vertical head motions, and left-right …

We propose a new direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation method suitable for autonomous
mobile robots. Autonomous mobile robots have to meet physical constraints of signal …

This paper presents voice-awareness control related to robot's head movements. Our control
is based on a new model of spectral envelope modification for the vertical head motions …

In this dissertation, we study a framework for conversational robots facilitating multiparty
conversa. tions, which can maintain a group as a group, support group task achievements …

To reach the desired information on a web site can be a very time consuming task when the
fact that the site may not even have that information is considered. In addition to the time …