Hideyuki Nakanishi

Shuichi Nishio

Tsutomu Fujinami

The development of information technology enabled us to exchange more items of information among us no matter how far we are apart from each other. It also changed our way of communication. Various types of robots recently promoted to be sold to general public hint that these robots may further influence our daily life as they physically interact with us and handle objects in environment. We may even recognize a feel of presence similar to that of human beings when we talk to a robot or when a robot takes part in our conversation. The impact will be strong enough for us to think about the meaning of communication. This e-book consists of various studies that examine our communication influenced by robots. Topics include our attitudes toward robot behaviors, designing robots for better communicating with people, and how people can be affected by communicating through robots.

Investigating Human Nature and Communication through Robots

Ulrich Hoppe

Hironori Egi

Satoshi Ichimura

Irene-Angelica Chounta

Hideyuki Takada

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference, CRIWG+CollabTech 2019, held in Kyoto, Japan in September 2019. The 12 full papers presented in this book together with 8 work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions, and the program also included an invited talk. This year presented a merger of the CRIWG and CollabTech conferences after having been jointly held since 2014. The papers published in this proceedings focus on innovative collaboration technologies and social computing.

25th International Conference, CRIWG+CollabTech 2019, Kyoto, Japan, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings

Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

Hideyuki Nakanishi

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