Papers
28
Total Citations
333
H-Index
9
About
Yuichiro Anzai is a pioneering figure in human-robot interaction, whose work has fundamentally shaped how robots understand and engage with people. His research centers on creating socially aware robots that can communicate naturally through gestures, verbal cues, and attentive listening. Anzai’s most influential contribution is the development of a three-layer attention-drawing model for humanoid robots, enabling them to use pointing gestures and reference terms like “this” and “that” to indicate objects—mimicking human conversational behavior. His landmark paper on a humanoid robot that pretends to listen during route guidance (108 citations) demonstrates his focus on embodied cooperative behavior, where robots use body language to appear engaged. Anzai also advanced multi-robot systems, reducing communication load in task negotiation through case-based reasoning and learning algorithms. His work on system response time for communication robots (13 citations) established design guidelines for natural interaction timing. With over 280 citations across his top papers, Anzai’s research bridges robotics, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction, laying the groundwork for today’s socially intelligent robots.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1A humanoid robot that pretends to listen to route guidance from a human108 citations · 2006
- 2
- 3
- 4Human-robot-computer interaction: a new paradigm of research in robotics15 citations · 1993
- 5
- 6
- 7How Quickly Should Communication Robots Respond?13 citations · 2009
- 8
- 9Human‐robot interface with attention10 citations · 1995
- 10