Harmonious and Symbiotic Interaction in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Vol.1

Norihiro HAGITA is the chair and professor in the Art Science Department at Osaka University of Arts, and the director and ATR fellow of Norihiro Hagita Laboratories at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR). He received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University in 1976, 1978, and 1986. From 2014, he is serving as the research supervisor on intelligent information processing systems creating co-experience knowledge and wisdom with human-machine harmonious collaboration in Japan Science and Technology agency (JST). He managed several research projects on communication scene analysis with audition, speech, and vision, image recognition and understanding, machine translation in NTT in 1978-2001, and human-robot interaction, multi-modal interfaces, ambient intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, and augmented reality in ATR in 2001-2019. He produced over 80 international journal papers and 240 international conference papers. He served as a project leader for several national research and development projects on networked robotics, human-robot interaction and ambient intelligence from 2002 to 2019 with Japanese companies and universities. He is also the member of Science Council of Japan and serving as the chair on ambient intelligence committee discussing informational surviving technology towards centenarian society.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Analyzing Human Attention and Behavior via Collective Visual Sensing for the Creation of Life Innovation.- Chapter 3: Recording and decoding interacting bodies and minds in real-world situations.- Chapter 4: Predicting individual social attitudes and sensitivities to stress for harmonious interactions using neural and SNS information.- Chapter 5: Approaches to building and testing artificial consciousness.- Chapter 6: Integrated Cognitive Models for General Purpose Intelligent Robots.- Chapter 7: User-Centric AI Platform PRINTEPS to Construct Unified AI Robot Applications.- Chapter 8: Agent that Facilitates Crowd Discussion.