サイバネティック・アンドロイド・アバター「Yui」：システム統合、フィールド展開、および評価
Cybernetic Android Avatar "Yui": System Integration, Field Deployment, and Evaluation
遠隔コミュニケーションのための全身アバター「Yui」を開発し、没入型とデスクトップ型の操作インターフェースを統合。万博や教育現場での実証実験を通じて、運用可能性と対話者の印象を評価した。
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著者: Kaoruko Shinkawa, Mizuki Nakajima, Taisei Mogi, Yoshihiro Nakata
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Remote communication technologies have become widely used; however, supporting a sense of shared physical space and conveying rich non-verbal cues remain challenging in many social interaction scenarios. This study presents "Yui," a full-body cybernetic android avatar designed to integrate operator-side immersive teleoperation with interlocutor-side human-like social signaling. Yui combines a 55-degrees of freedom full-body mechanism with a previously developed android head, facial expression and gaze control, upper-body and arm motion, hand actuation, and a mobile platform. It can be operated through either the immersive mode using a head mounted display-based interface or desktop mode using a webcam-based interface. We evaluated the system through three real-world deployments: a long-term public exhibition at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan; a remote educational exchange between elementary school students; and a public interaction study with general participants. During the Expo deployment, two units accumulated approximately 1131 h of operation, demonstrating both operational feasibility and maintenance challenges. In the public study, both operators and interlocutors reported positive impressions of co-presence and willingness to use the system. Interlocutors also rated the avatar positively in terms of human likeness and the transmission of emotions and intentions. The results indicate usability for general operators while suggesting room for improvement in precise controllability. These findings provide field-derived evidence and design implications for socially deployable full-body android avatars.
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