Yoshihiro Miyake
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Papers
32
Total Citations
445
H-Index
12
About
Yoshihiro Miyake is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction, embodied cognition, and cooperative systems, whose work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how humans and machines can share dynamic, adaptive communication. His most celebrated contribution — the Walk-Mate robot (2009, 108 citations) — demonstrated that interpersonal synchronization of body motion, the unconscious coordination we experience when walking alongside another person, could be replicated and harnessed in assistive robotics, with meaningful applications for elderly care and rehabilitation. Central to much of his research is the concept of "internal observation" and mutual entrainment, frameworks he developed to move beyond conventional control theory toward models where agents and environments are inseparably coupled, co-generating behavior in real time. This theoretical grounding underpins his explorations of nonverbal robot behavior, including studies on human likability (2018) and the Uncanny Valley (2021), revealing how gesture and timing shape human perception of robotic partners. Miyake's sustained body of work — spanning distributed autonomous robotics, humanoid communication, and cooperative walking systems — reflects a career devoted to understanding interaction not as command and response, but as emergent, mutually entrained co-creation between human and machine.
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- 2Internal observation and co-generative interface32 citations · 2003
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- 7Internal observation and mutual adaptation in human-robot cooperation20 citations · 2002
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- 10Co-emergence Robot Walk-Mate and Its Support for Elderly People14 citations · 2003