Kurima Sakai

According to our database, Kurima Sakai authored at least 27 papers between 2012 and 2026.

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2026

The Effect of Avatars with an Autonomous Dialogue System on Human Relationships.

Naoki Kodani, Yuya Komai, Kurima Sakai, Takahisa Uchida, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

2025

Meet the Motivational Robot That Predicts Your Future Feelings.

Rui Chen, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Takayuki Kanda

ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact., June, 2025

Developing a Vision and Contact Sensor-Based Android-to-Human Touch System That Enables Face and Arm Touch.

Aidan Edward Fox-Tierney, Kurima Sakai, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., April, 2025

Evaluating human perceptions of android robot facial expressions based on variations in instruction styles.

Ayaka Fujii, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Ritsuko Iwai, Yusuke Takahashi, Takatsune Kumada, Takashi Minato

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2025

Analyzing Dialogue System Behavior in a Specific Situation Requiring Interpersonal Consideration.

Tetsuro Takahashi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Masato Komuro, Ryosaku Makino, Shiki Sato, Yuta Sasaki, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025

Key Challenges in Multimodal Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems: Insights from a Large Competition-Based Dataset.

Shiki Sato, Shinji Iwata, Asahi Hentona, Yuta Sasaki, Takato Yamazaki, Shoji Moriya, Masaya Ohagi, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Jie Yang, Zhiyang Qi, Takashi Kodama, Akinobu Lee, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Kotaro Funakoshi, Mayumi Usami, Michimasa Inaba, Tetsuro Takahashi, Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2025

DSLCMM: A Multimodal Human-Machine Dialogue Corpus Built through Competitions.

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Tetsuro Takahashi, Shinya Iizuka, Sota Horiuchi, Michimasa Inaba, Zhiyang Qi, Yuta Sasaki, Kotaro Funakoshi, Shoji Moriya, Shiki Sato, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Masato Komuro, Hiroyuki Nishikawa, Ryosaku Makino, Hirofumi Kikuchi, Mayumi Usami

Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology, 2025

Robot Harassment: Inappropriate Behaviors Against an Android Robot During Three-Year Exhibition.

Masahiro Shiomi, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

2024

Android avatar improves educational effects by embodied anthropomorphization.

Naoki Kodani, Takahisa Uchida, Nahoko Kameo, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Takashi Minato, Akane Kikuchi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2024

A comparative psychological evaluation of a robotic avatar in Dubai and Japan.

Hiroko Kamide, Yukiko Horikawa, Moe Sato, Atsushi Toyoda, Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2024

Overview of Dialogue Robot Competition 2023.

Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai

CoRR, 2024

Analysis of heart-to-heart communication with robot using transfer entropy.

Moe Sato, Takashi Minato, Tomo Funayama, Hidenobu Sumioka, Kurima Sakai, Ryusuke Mikata, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kazuya Horibe, Akane Kikuchi, Kaito Sakuma

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024

Effects of Gestures and Negative Attitudes on Impressions of Lecturing Robots.

Naoki Kodani, Takahisa Uchida, Nahoko Kameo, Midori Ban, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Takashi Minato, Akane Kikuchi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Noise Reduction-Based Auditory Notification Encourages Independently Noticing of Human Presence in a Multitasking Environment.

Atsushi Toyoda, Tomo Funayama, Kurima Sakai, Ryusuke Mikata, Takashi Minato, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2024

2023

Design of a competition specifically for spoken dialogue with a humanoid robot.

Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai

Adv. Robotics, November, 2023

Sawarimōto: A Vision and Touch Sensor-based Method for Automatic or Tele-operated Android-to-human Face Touch.

Aidan Edward Fox-Tierney, Kurima Sakai, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

2022

A study of interactive robot architecture through the practical implementation of conversational android.

Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Takahisa Uchida, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

Overview of Dialogue Robot Competition 2022.

Takashi Minato, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai

CoRR, 2022

Dialogue Robot Competition for the Development of an Android Robot with Hospitality.

Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Takayuki Nagai

Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2022

2021

Wearable Tactile Sensor Suit for Natural Body Dynamics Extraction: Case Study on Posture Prediction Based on Physical Reservoir Computing.

Hidenobu Sumioka, Kohei Nakajima, Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Masahiro Shiomi

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

2020

SŌTO: An Android Platform with a Masculine Appearance for Social Touch Interaction.

Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Kurima Sakai, Tomo Funayama, Takashi Minato

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

2017

Novel Speech Motion Generation by Modeling Dynamics of Human Speech Production.

Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2017

2016

Speech driven trunk motion generating system based on physical constraint.

Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

2015

Online speech-driven head motion generating system and evaluation on a tele-operated robot.

Kurima Sakai, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2015

2014

Huggable communication medium encourages listening to others.

Junya Nakanishi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi, Daisuke Nakamichi, Kurima Sakai, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the second international conference on Human-agent interaction, 2014

2013

Hugvie: A medium that fosters love.

Kaiko Kuwamura, Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2013

2012

Motion design of an interactive small humanoid robot with visual illusion.

Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, Kurima Sakai, Shuichi Nishio, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction, 2012