Katsuya Takanashi
Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics, Kyoto University
Papers
11
Total Citations
181
H-Index
7
About
Katsuya Takanashi is a leading researcher in human-robot interaction, specializing in developing socially intelligent robots that can engage in natural, attentive conversations. His primary research areas include dialogue systems, emotion recognition, and listener engagement modeling for autonomous robots. Takanashi’s most significant contribution is the creation of an attentive listening system for the android robot ERICA, which generates diverse listener responses—such as backchannels, repeats, elaborating questions, and assessments—to encourage smooth, empathetic dialogue. His work on emotion recognition, combining prosody and sentiment analysis, enables robots to express reactive emotions that build rapport with users. With over 60 citations for his seminal 2017 paper on attentive listening, Takanashi’s research has been widely recognized for its potential to support elderly individuals’ communication abilities and mental health. He has also advanced turn-taking mechanisms through filler generation and engagement-based adaptive behaviors, making human-robot interactions more fluid and humanlike. His comparative evaluations between autonomous and Wizard-of-Oz systems demonstrate the practical viability of fully autonomous attentive listeners, positioning him as a key innovator in creating robots that serve as empathetic companions and conversational partners.
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- 3A Conversational Dialogue Manager for the Humanoid Robot ERICA27 citations · 2018
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