Publications / 2006 Proceedings of the 23rd ISARC, Tokyo, Japan
In this article, after surveying the problems incurred by the conventional technology-centered automation in a variety of fields, we put an emphasis on the fact that a concept of sociality is really needed to form the ideal human-automation and/or human-robot relations emerging out of active interactions. Then, some key technical issues are to be presented for realizing such socially-centered automation and establishing the human-automation and/or human-robot collaboration. Brief introductions of the ongoing works by the authors group are also presented.