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Masahiro Shiomi is affiliated with the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research themes include Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Action Observation and Synchronization, AI in Service Interactions, Robotics and Automated Systems, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, and Color Perception and Design.

Shiomi has published extensively in several prominent venues. Their frequent publication venues include Advanced Robotics, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, PLoS ONE, Applied Sciences, and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Masahiro Shiomi include:

  • "Robot Reciprocation of Hugs Increases Both Interacting Times and Self-disclosures" (2020), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "Two is better than one: Social rewards from two agents enhance offline improvements in motor skills more than single agent" (2020), PLoS ONE
  • "A Minimal Design of a Human Infant Presence: A Case Study Toward Interactive Doll Therapy for Older Adults With Dementia" (2021), Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • "A Robot That Encourages Self-Disclosure to Reduce Anger Mood" (2021), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Two is better than one: Apologies from two robots are preferred" (2023), PLoS ONE

Shiomi has collaborated frequently with several researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Takamasa Iio, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, and Katsunori Shimohara.

Best Publications

  • Interactive Humanoid Robots for a Science Museum

    M. Shiomi;T. Kanda;H. Ishiguro;N. Hagita

  • Interactive humanoid robots for a science museum

    Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Norihiro Hagita

  • An affective guide robot in a shopping mall

    Takayuki Kanda;Masahiro Shiomi;Zenta Miyashita;Hiroshi Ishiguro

  • A Communication Robot in a Shopping Mall

    T Kanda;M Shiomi;Z Miyashita;H Ishiguro

  • Towards a Socially Acceptable Collision Avoidance for a Mobile Robot Navigating Among Pedestrians Using a Pedestrian Model

    Masahiro Shiomi;Francesco Zanlungo;Kotaro Hayashi;Takayuki Kanda

  • Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium: a field experiment at a train station

    Kotaro Hayashi;Daisuke Sakamoto;Takayuki Kanda;Masahiro Shiomi

  • Do elderly people prefer a conversational humanoid as a shopping assistant partner in supermarkets

    Yamato Iwamura;Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Hiroshi Ishiguro

  • Who will be the customer?: a social robot that anticipates people's behavior from their trajectories

    Takayuki Kanda;Dylan F. Glas;Masahiro Shiomi;Hiroshi Ishiguro

  • Can a Social Robot Stimulate Science Curiosity in Classrooms

    Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Iris K. Howley;Kotaro Hayashi

  • A semi-autonomous communication robot: a field trial at a train station

    Masahiro Shiomi;Daisuke Sakamoto;Takayuki Kanda;Carlos Toshinori Ishi

  • Recommendation Effects of a Social Robot for Advertisement-Use Context in a Shopping Mall

    Masahiro Shiomi;Kazuhiko Shinozawa;Yoshifumi Nakagawa;Takahiro Miyashita

  • Does A Robot’s Touch Encourage Human Effort?

    Masahiro Shiomi;Kayako Nakagawa;Kazuhiko Shinozawa;Reo Matsumura

  • Abstracting People's Trajectories for Social Robots to Proactively Approach Customers

    T. Kanda;D.F. Glas;M. Shiomi;N. Hagita

  • Analysis of People Trajectories with Ubiquitous Sensors in a Science Museum

    T. Kanda;M. Shiomi;L. Perrin;T. Nomura

  • Effect of robot's active touch on people's motivation

    Kayako Nakagawa;Masahiro Shiomi;Kazuhiko Shinozawa;Reo Matsumura

  • Field trial of networked social robots in a shopping mall

    Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Dylan F. Glas;Satoru Satake

  • Can a social robot help children's understanding of science in classrooms?

    Tsuyoshi Komatsubara;Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Hiroshi Ishiguro

  • Modeling and Prediction of Pedestrian Behavior Based on the Sub-Goal Concept

    Tetsushi Ikeda;Yoshihiro Chigodo;Daniel J. Rea;Francesco Zanlungo

  • Group attention control for communication robots with wizard of OZ approach

    Masahiro Shiomi;Takayuki Kanda;Satoshi Koizumi;Hiroshi Ishiguro

  • Information providing system

    Dylan Fairchild Glas;Takayuki Kanda;Satoshi Satake;Masahiro Shiomi

  • A model of distributional handing interaction for a mobile robot

    Chao Shi;Masahiro Shiomi;Christian Smith;Takayuki Kanda

  • 'Midas touch' in human-robot interaction: evidence from event-related potentials during the ultimatum game

    Haruaki Fukuda;Masahiro Shiomi;Kayako Nakagawa;Kazuhiro Ueda

Frequent Co-Authors

Norihiro Hagita
Norihiro Hagita Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University
Javier R. Movellan
Javier R. Movellan University of California, San Diego
Michita Imai
Michita Imai Keio University
Kazuhiro Nakadai
Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoshio Matsumoto
Yoshio Matsumoto Tokyo University of Science

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