A JST CREST project building an AI foundation that supports behavior change and active social co-creation through symbiosis with "Self Mirroring Twins."
Elucidating, through cognitive science, the mechanisms and individual differences of social touch that creates a sense of comfort between humans, and between humans and robots.
Clarifying "how babies learn" through computational models grounded in predictive coding theory and robot experiments.
This line of research computationally models how human emotions develop through multimodal perception (vision, audition, touch). We focus on tactile dominance in infant-caregiver …