Title: Motion Design Based on Culture and Tradition
Speaker: Hisato Kobayashi
(Professor, Hosei University)
Date: June 14th 2010 (Mon) 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 pm
Place: C1 Seminar room (#1121) , Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Abstract:
As we know well, robots working with us must be human friendly. The meaning of human-friendly
includes behavior patterns of robots. In this sense Robots’ movements must be elegant or gentle,
which never give us unpleasant feeling. In this seminar, I will introduce our new project named
“Shosa-gaku,” ”Shosa” is a beautiful motion unit appeared in cultural play or traditional ceremony.
Our project is going to utilize such traditional motion for robots; motion design. The project is just
in starting process, the seminar will only explains the basic concept and introduction.
*Contact*
Human-Robot Interaction Research Center
Director : Dong Soo Kwon
secretary: Eun-Hwa Kwak , (Tel) 8249
