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  1. Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka,
    "Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Symbiotic touch interaction between human and robot,"
    CRC Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003384274

89 Journal Papers

  1. Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Pre-touch reaction is preferred over post-touch reaction in interaction with displayed agent,"
    PeerJ Computer Science, 10:e2277, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2277

  2. Mejia, Dario Alfonso Cuello, Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Touch Interaction Classification Using Upper-Body Sensor Suit,"
    IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol.24, No.14, pp.22720 - 22732, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2024.3407106

  3. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi.
    "The experience of a tele-operated avatar being touched increases operator's sense of discomfort,"
    PeerJ Computer Science, 10:e1926, 2024. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1926

  4. Taichi Hirayama, Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Speed effects in touching behaviours: impact on perceived relationships in robot-robot interactions,"
    Advanced Robotics, 1-18, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2024.2321616

  5. Masahiro Shiomi.
    "A systematic survey of multiple social robots as a passive- and interactive-social medium,"
    Advanced Robotics, 1-15, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2023.2297900

  6. Nobuo Yamato, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masahiro Shiomi, Youji Kohda.
    "Technology Acceptance Models from Different Viewpoints of Caregiver, Receiver, and Care Facility Administrator: Lessons from Long-Term Implementation Using Baby-Like Interactive Robot for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia,"
    Journal of Technology in Human Services, 1-26, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228835.2023.2292058

  7. Yuya Onishi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi.
    "Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01070-5

  8. Masahiro Shiomi, Hayashi Rina, and Hiroshi Nittono.
    "Is two cuter than one? number and relationship effects on the feeling of kawaii toward social robots,"
    Plos one 18.10, e0290433, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290433

  9. Satomi Kato Doi, Aya Isumi, Yui Yamaoka, Shiori Shakagori, Juri Yamazaki, Kanako Ito, Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Takeo Fujiwara,
    "The effect of breathing relaxation to improve poor sleep quality in adults using a huggable human-shaped device: a randomized controlled trial,"
    Sleep and Breathing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-023-02858-5

  10. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Yohei Otsuka, Michita Imai and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Effects of Appearance and Gender on Pre-Touch Proxemics in Virtual Reality,"
    Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1195059

  11. Martin Cooney, Masahiro Shiomi, Eduardo Kochenborger Duarte, Alexey Vineli,
    "A Broad View on Robot Self-Defense: Rapid Scoping Review and Cultural Comparison,"
    Robotics, 12(2), 43, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12020043

  12. Dario Alfonso Cuello Mejia, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Evaluating gaze behaviors as pre-touch reactions of virtual agents,"
    Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129677

  13. Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Two is better than one: Apologies from two robots are preferred,"
    PLOS ONE, e0281604, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281604

  14. Kana Higashino, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-00971-9

  15. Hiroki Itahara, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "How does exposure to changing opinions or reaffirmation opinions influence the thoughts of observers and their trust in robot discussions?"
    Applied Science, 13.1 (2023): 585. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13010585

  16. Masahiro Shiomi, Atsumu Kubota, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, and Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Stay away from me: coughing increases social distance even in a virtual environment,"
    PLOS ONE 17(12): e0279717, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279717.

  17. Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Hiroshi Nittono and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Kawaii emotions in presentations: viewing a physical touch affects perception of affiliative feelings of others toward an object,"
    PLoS ONE 17(3): e0264736, 2022. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  18. Reo Matsumura, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "An Animation Character Robot That Increases Sales,"
    Applied Science, 12(3), 1724, 2022. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  19. Atsumu Kubota, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "From When to When: Evaluating Naturalness of Reaction Time via Viewing Turn around Behaviors,"
    Applied Science, 11(23), 11424, 2021. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  20. Masahiro Shiomi, Xiqian Zheng, Takashi Minato and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Implementation and Evaluation of a Grip Behavior Model to Express Emotions for an Android Robot,"
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8:755150. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.755150. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  21. Dario Alfonso Cuello Mejia, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Modeling a Pre-Touch Reaction Distance around Socially Touchable Upper Body Parts of a Robot,"
    Applied Science, 11(16), 7307, 2021. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  22. Masahiro Shiomi, Yumiko Tamura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Two is Better Than One: Verification of the Effect of Praise from Two Robots on Pre-school Children's Learning Time,"
    Advanced Robotics, vol. 35, no. 19, pp. 1132-1144, 2021. (Preprint PDF)

  23. Dario Alfonso Cuello Mejia, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Modeling a Pre-Touch Reaction Distance around Socially Touchable Upper Body Parts of a Robot,"
    Applied Science, 11, 7307, 2021. (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  24. Higashino Kana, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Tactile Stimulus is Essential to Increase Motivation for Touch Interaction in Virtual Environment,"
    Advanced Robotics, vol. 35, no. 17, pp. 1043-1053, 2021. (Preprint PDF)

  25. Takuto Akiyoshi, Junya Nakanishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "A Robot That Encourages Self-Disclosure to Reduce Anger Mood,"
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, pp.7926-7933, 2021.
    (The contents of this paper were also selected by IROS2021' Program Committee for presentation at the Conference. Acceptance rate = 45%.) (Direct link to the publisher's page, open access)

  26. Dario Alfonso Cuello Mejia, Aoba Saito, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Modeling of Pre-Touch Reaction Distance for Faces in a Virtual Environment,"
    Journal of Information Processing, 2021. (accepted) (Preprint PDF)

  27. Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi, Miwako Honda, and Atsushi Nakazawa,
    "Technical Challenges for Smooth Interaction With Seniors With Dementia: Lessons From Humanitude?."
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8, 2021, pp.162. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  28. Hidenobu Sumioka, Nobuo Yamato, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "A minimal design of a human infant presence: a case study toward interactive doll therapy for older adults with dementia."
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 2021, pp,164. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  29. Invitto, Sara, Soheil Keshmiri, Andrea Mazzatenta, Alberto Grasso, Daniele Romano, Fabio Bona, Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Perception of Social Odor and Gender-Related Differences Investigated Through the Use of Transfer Entropy and Embodied Medium."
    Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 15, 2021, pp.52. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  30. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Coordinating Entrainment Phenomena: Robot Conversation Strategy for Object Recognition,"
    Applied Science, 2021. (to appear) (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  31. Yumiko Tamura, Masahiro Shiomi, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Robots as an Interactive-Social Medium in Storytelling to Multiple Children,"
    Interaction Studies, Vol.22, No.1, pp.110-140, 2021. (Preprint PDF)

  32. Xiqian Zheng, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Modeling the Timing and Duration of Grip Behavior to Express Emotions for a Social Robot,"
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.6, No.1, pp.159-166, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  33. Masahiro Shiomi, Soto Okumura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Two is Better than One: Social Rewards from Two Agents Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skills More than Single Agent,"
    PLoS ONE, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240622, Vol.15, No.11, e0240622, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  34. Soheil Keshmiri, Masahiro Shiomi, Kodai Shatani, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Critical Examination of the Parametric Approaches to Analysis of the Non-Verbal Human Behavior: A Case Study in Facial Pre-Touch Interaction,"
    Applied Science, 10(11), 3817, doi.org/10.3390/app10113817, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  35. Soheil Keshmiri, Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Gentle Versus Strong Touch Classification: Preliminary Results, Challenges, and Potentials,"
    Sensors, 20(11), 3033, doi.org/10.3390/s20113033, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  36. JLiang-Yu Chen, Hidenobu Sumioka, Li-Ju Ke, Masahiro Shiomi, Liang-Kung Chen,
    "Effects of Teleoperated Humanoid Robot Application in Older Adults with Neurocognitive Disorders in Taiwan: A Report of Three Cases,"
    Aging Medicine and Healthcare,doi:10.33879/AMH.2020.066-2001.003, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  37. Masahiro Shiomi, Aya Nakata, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Robot reciprocation of hugs increases both interacting times and self-disclosures,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00644-x, Vol.13, pp.353-361, 2020. (Preprint PDF)

  38. Soheil Keshmiri, Maryam Alimardani, Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Kazuo Hiraki,
    "Higher Hypnotic Suggestibility Is Associated with the Lower EEG Signal Variability in Theta, Alpha, and Beta Frequency Bands,"
    PLOS ONE, Vol.15 No.4, e0230853, 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  39. Soheil Keshmiri, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Emergence of the Affect from the Variation in the Whole-Brain Flow of Information,"
    Brain Sciences, 10(1), 2020. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  40. Soheil Keshmiri, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Entropy of the Multi-Channel EEG Recordings Identifies the Distributed Signatures of Negative, Neutral, and Positive Affect in Whole-Brain Variability,"
    Entropy, 21(12), 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  41. Soheil Keshmiri, Hidenobu Sumioka, Ryuji Yamazaki, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Information Content of Prefrontal Cortex Activity Quantifies the Difficulty of Narrated Stories,"
    Scientific Reports, 9, 1, 17959, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  42. Masahiro Shiomi, Hidenobu Sumioka, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "A Survey of Social Touch Interaction between Human and Robot,"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.128-135, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  43. Kayako Nakagawa, Reo Matsumura, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Effect of Robot's Play-biting in Non-verbal Communication"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.86-96, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  44. Kasumi Abe, Takayuki Nagai, Chie Hieida, Takashi Omori, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Estimating Children's Personalities through Their Interaction Activities with a Tele-Operated Robot"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.21-31, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  45. Xiqian Zheng, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "How Can Robot Make People Feel Intimacy Through Touch?"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.51-58, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  46. Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Effects of Robot's Awareness and its Subtle Reactions toward People's Perceived Feelings in Touch Interaction"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.43-50, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  47. Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Hirano, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Gaze-Height and Speech-Timing Effects on Feeling Robot-Initiated Touches"
    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.32, No.1, pp.68-75, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  48. Xiqian Zheng, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    "What Kinds of Robot's Touch Will Match Expressed Emotions?"
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019. (to appear)
    (The contents of this paper were also selected by Humanoids2019' Program Committee for presentation at the Conference. Acceptance rate = 50%.) (Preprint PDF)

  49. Soheil Keshmiri, Masahiro Shiomi, Kodai Shatani, Takashi Minato, and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Facial Pre-Touch Space Differentiates the Level of Openness Among Individuals"
    Scientific Reports, 9, 1, 11924, 2019. (Direct link to the publisher's page)

  50. Honoka Arai, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Reo Matsumura, Masahiro Shiomi
    "How Can Robot's Gaze Ratio and Body Direction Show an Awareness of Priority to the People with whom it is Interacting?"
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019. (to appear)
    (The contents of this paper were also selected by IROS2019' Program Committee for presentation at the Conference. Acceptance rate = 45%.) (Preprint PDF)

  51. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Do the Number of Robots and the Participant’s Gender Influence Conformity Effect from Multiple Robots?"
    Advanced Robotics, 2019. (accepted)
    (Preprint PDF)

  52. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Audio-Visual Stimuli Change not Only Robot’s Hug Impressions but Also Its Stress-Buffering Effects"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, pp. 469-476, 2019.
    (Preprint PDF)

  53. Masahiro Shiomi, Kodai Shatani, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "How should a Robot React before People's Touch?: Modeling a Pre-Touch Reaction Distance for a Robot's Face"
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp.3773-3780, 2018.
    (The contents of this paper were also selected by IROS2018' Program Committee for presentation at the Conference. Acceptance rate = 46.7%.) (Preprint PDF)

  54. Tsuyoshi Komatsubara, Masahiro Shiomi, Thomas Kaczmarek, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Estimating Children’s Social Status through their Interaction Activities in Classrooms with a Social Robot,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics,DOI: 10.1007/s12369-018-0474-7, pp. 1-14, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  55. Kasumi Abe, Masahiro Shiomi, Yachao Pei, Tingyi Zhang, Narumitsu Ikeda, and Takayuki Nagai
    "ChiCaRo: Tele-presence Robot for Interacting with Babies and Toddlers,"
    Advanced Robotics, Vol.32, No. 4, pp. 176-190, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  56. Zeynep Yucel, Francesco Zanlungo, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Modeling the Impact of Interaction on Pedestrian Group Motion,"
    Advanced Robotics, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.137-147, 2017.

  57. Tsuyoshi Komatsubara, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    "Can Using Pointing Gestures Encourage Children to Ask Questions?"
    International Journal of Social Robotics,DOI: 10.1007/s12369-017-0444-5, pp. 1-13, 2017. (Preprint PDF)

  58. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Can Graphical Interaction Increase Feelings of Conveying and Understanding in On-line Group Discussion?,"
    SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 55-64, 2017.

  59. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Tomoki Nakahata, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "A System that Supports Self-Motivated Video-Viewing Stops for Children,"
    SICE Journal of Control, Measurement, and System Integration, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 48-54, 2017.

  60. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Gender Effects on Lexical Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction,"
    IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 137, No. 12, pp.1625-1632, 2017.

  61. Takahiro Hirano, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "How Do Communication Cues Change Impressions of Human-Robot Touch Interaction?,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 10, No.1, pp.21-31, 2017 (Preprint PDF)

  62. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Social acceptance toward a childcare support robot system: web-based cultural differences investigation and a field study in Japan,"
    Advanced Robotics, doi:10.1080/01691864.2017.1345322, pp. 727-738, 2017. (Preprint PDF)

  63. Dylan F. Glas, Kanae Wada, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Personal Greetings: Personalizing Robot Utterances Based on Novelty of Observed Behavior,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics,doi:10.1007/s12369-016-0385-4, pp.1-18, 2016.

  64. Masahiro Shiomi, Kayako Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Reo Matsumura, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Does a Robot's Touch Encourage Human Effort?,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics,10.1007/s12369-016-0339-x, pp.1-11, 2016. (Preprint PDF)

  65. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Koji Kamei, Chandraprakash Sharma, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Social Acceptance by Senior Citizens and Caregivers of a Fall Detection System using Range Sensors in a Nursing Home,"
    Advanced Robotics,Volume 30, Issue 3, pp.190-205, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  66. Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Takayuki Kanda, Drazen Brscic, Masahiro Shiomi
    "Simulation-based Behavior Planning to Prevent Congestion of Pedestrians Around a Robot,"
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol.31, Issue 6, pp 1419-1431,2015.

  67. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Finding a Person with a Wearable Acceleration Sensor using a 3D Position Tracking System in Daily Environments,"
    Advanced Robotics,Volume 29, Issue 23, pp 1563-1574, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  68. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Iris Howley, Kotaro Hayashi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Can a Social Robot Stimulate Science Curiosity in Classrooms?"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp 641-652, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  69. Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Koji Kamei, Chandraprakash Sharma, Norihiro Hagita
    "Effectiveness of Social Behaviors for Autonomous Wheelchair Robot to Support Elderly People in Japan,"
    PLOS ONE, 10(5): e0128031. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128031, 2015. (PDF)

  70. Kanae Wada, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Capturing expertise - Developing interaction content for a robot through teleoperation by domain experts,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp 653-672, 2015.

  71. Chao Shi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Measuring Communication Participation to Initiate Conversation in Human-Robot Interaction,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp 889-910, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  72. Reo Matsumura, Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita
    "What kind of floor am I standing on? Floor surface identification by a small humanoid robot through full-body motions,"
    Advanced Robotics, Volume 29, Issue 7, pp.469-480, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  73. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Katsunori Shimohara, Mitsunori Miki, Norihiro Hagita
    "Lexical entrainment in human Robot Interaction -Do Humans Use their Vocabulary to Robots?-,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 253-263, 2015.

  74. Masahiro Shiomi, Francesco Zanlungo, Kotaro Hayashi and Takayuki Kanda
    "Towards a socially acceptable collision avoidance for a mobile robot navigating among pedestrians using a pedestrian model,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 6, Issue 3 , pp. 443-455, 2014. (Preprint PDF)

  75. Reo Matsumura, Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Who is interacting with me? Identification of an interacting person through playful interaction with a small robot,"
    IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Issue: 99, pp. 1-11, 2014. (Preprint PDF)

  76. Masahiro Shiomi, Kaoru Kurumizawa, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Finding a Person with a Wi-Fi Device in a Crowd of Pedestrians,"
    Advanced Robotics, Volume 28, Issue 7, pp. 441-448, 2014. (Preprint PDF)

  77. Masahiro Shiomi, Kayako Nakagawa, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Design of a Gaze Behavior at a Small Mistake Moment for a Robot,"
    Gaze in human-robot communication, Special Issue of Interaction Studies, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 317-328, 2013. (Preprint PDF)

  78. Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Yoshifumi Nakagawa, Takahiro Miyashita, Toshio Sakamoto, Toshimitsu Terakubo, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Recommendation effects of a social robot for advertisement-use context in a shopping mall,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp 251-262, 2013. (Preprint PDF)

  79. Koji Kamei, Tetsushi Ikeda, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Akira Utsumi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takahiro Miyashita and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Cooperative customer navigation between robots outside and inside a retail shop-an implementation on the ubiquitous market platform,"
    Annals of Telecommunications, Vol.67, No.7-8, pp.329-340, 2012.

  80. Kayako Nakagawa, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Reo Matsumura, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Effect of Robot's Whispering Behavior on People's Motivation,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 5-16, 2012. (Preprint PDF)

  81. Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Are Robots Appropriate for Troublesome and Communicative Tasks in a City Environment?"
    IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 150-160, 2012.

  82. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takaaki Akimoto, Katsunori Shimohara, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Investigating Entrainment of People's Pointing Gestures by Robot's Gestures Using a WOZ Method,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp.405-414, Sep, 2011.

  83. Masahiro Shiomi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Field Trial of a Networked Robot at a Train Station,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp.27-40, 2011. (Preprint PDF)

  84. Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "A communication robot in a shopping mall,"
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 897-913, Oct. 2010.

  85. Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Abstracting People's Trajectories for Social Robots to Proactively Approach Customers",
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics. vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1382-1396, Dec. 2009

  86. Daisuke Sakamoto, Kotaro Hayashi, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi,
    Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Tsukasa Ogasawara and Norihiro Hagita.
    "Humanoid Robots as a Broadcasting Communication Medium in Open Public Spaces,"
    International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer, Vol. 1. No. 2. pp. 157-169, 2009.

  87. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Group Attention Control for Communication Robots,"
    International Journal of Humanoid Robotics(IJHR), vol. 5, no. 4, pp.587-608, 2008.

  88. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda. Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Interactive Humanoid Robots for a Science Museum",
    IEEE Intelligent systems (Special Issues on Interactive with Autonomy), vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 25-32, Mar/Apr, 2007.

  89. T. Nomura, T. Tasaki, T. Kanda, M. Shiomi, H. Ishiguro, and N. Hagita,
    "Questionnaire-Based Social Research on Opinions of Japanese Visitors for Communication Robots at an Exhibition",
    AI & Society, Volume. 21, No.1, pp.167-183 2007.

  90. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda Nicolas Miralles, Takahiro Miyashita, Ian Fasel, Javier Movellan, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Development of face-to-face communication function for a humanoid robot,"
    System and Computers in Japan, Vol. 37, No.14, pp.1-14, Dec. 2006.


80 Conference Papers

  1. Masahiro Shiomi, Yuina Kato, Hiroshi Nittono, Emi Anzai and Naoki Saiwaki,
    "The Feeling of Kawaii Toward a Robot's Head-Tilting Motion: Effects of Speed, Direction, and Accompanying Hand Gestures",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  2. Masahiro Shiomi, Taichi Hirayama, Takamasa Iio, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Two Is Better Than One: Cultural Differences in the Number of Apologizing Robots in the U.S. and Japan",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  3. Jyunya Kawano, Shiomi, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "What Kinds of Facial Self-Touches Strengthen Expressed Emotions?",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  4. Yuki Kimura, Emi Anzai and Naoki Saiwaki, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Two Is Better Than One: Explanations by Multiple Robots Strengthen the Feeling of Kawaii Toward Objects",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  5. Ryuto Matsusaka, Masahiro Shiomi, and Tetsuya Takiguchi,
    "Effects of Listening Behaviors of a Social Robot on Adult's Motivation and Performance in Piano Practice",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  6. Masahiro Shiomi, Masayuki Kakio, and Takahiro Miyashita,
    "Who Should Speak? Voice Cue Design for a Mobile Robot Riding in a Smart Elevator",
    33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2024.

  7. Arne Hitzmann, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Touch Me Right: Lateral Preferences During Touch in Human-Robot-Interactions",
    32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2023 (accepted)

  8. Eduardo Kochenborger Duarte, Masahiro Shiomi, Alexey Vinel, Martin Cooney,
    "Trust in Robot Self-Defense: People Would Prefer a Competent, Tele-Operated Robot That Tries to Help",
    32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2023 (accepted)

  9. Taichi Hirayama, Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "What is the Speed Boundary between Patting and Slapping by a Robot? Investigating Perceptions toward Robot-Robot Interaction,"
    in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2022, pp. 212-218. doi: 10.1145/3527188.3561935.

  10. Qi An, Akito Tanaka, Kazuto Nakashima, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi, Ryo Kurazume,
    "Understanding Humanitude Care for Sit-To-Stand Motion by Wearable Sensors",
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Tu-PS2-T7.2, 2022

  11. Eduardo Kochenborger Duarte, Masahiro Shiomi, Alexey Vinel, Martin Cooney,
    "Robot Self-defense: Robots Can Use Force on Human Attackers to Defend Victims",
    31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), pp.1606-1613, 2022

  12. Takashi Takuma, Koki Haruno, Kosuke Yamada, Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Stretchable Multi-modal Sensor using Capacitive Cloth for Soft Mobile Robot Passing through Gap",
    International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2021, (accepted)

  13. Yuya Onishi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi
    "Increasing Contact of Torso: Comparing Human-Human Relationships and Situations,"
    The 13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021), 2021. (acceptance rate=49.6% (64/129))(to appear)

  14. Hidenobu Sumioka, Kohei Nakajima, Kurima Sakai, Takashi Minato, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Wearable tactile sensor suit for natural body dynamics extraction: case study on posture prediction based on physical reservoir computing,"
    IEEE IROS2021, 2021. (accepted)

  15. Natsuki Matsunaga, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Does a wearing change perception toward a robot?,"
    IEEE RO-MAN2021, 2021. (accepted)

  16. Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Hiroshi Nittono, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Can a Robot's Touches Express the Feeling of Kawaii toward an Object?"
    IEEE IROS2020, pp.11276-11283, 2020.

  17. Kana Higashino, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Effects of Social Touch from an Agent in Virtual Space: Comparing Visual Stimuli and Virtual-Tactile Stimuli,"
    IEEE RO-MAN2020, pp.768-774, 2020.

  18. Yuka Okada, Riko Taniguchi, Akihiro Tatsumi, Masashi Okubo, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Effects of Touch Behaviors and Whispering Voices in Robot-Robot Interaction for Information Providing Tasks,"
    IEEE RO-MAN2020, pp. 7-13, 2020. (Preprint PDF)

  19. Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi, Nobuo Yamato, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Acceptance of a minimal design of a human infant for facilitating affective interaction with older adults: A case study toward interactive doll therapy,"
    IEEE RO-MAN2020, pp. 775-780, 2020.

  20. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Michita Imai and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Lexical Entrainment in Multi-party Human-Robot Interaction,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp.165-175, 2019.

  21. Soheil Keshmiri, Hidenobu Sumioka, Takashi Minato, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Exploring the Causal Modeling of Human-Robot Touch Interaction,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp.235-244, 20219

  22. Adrien Gregor, Zeynep Yucel, Sunao Hara, Akito Monden, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "A Signal Processing Perspective on Human Gait: Decoupling Walking Oscillations and Gestures,"
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, pp.75-85, 2019.

  23. Masahiro Shiomi, Tsuyoshi Komatsubara, Thomas Kaczmarek, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Estimating Children's Characteristics by Observing their Classroom Activities,"
    The Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) , pp. 133-138, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  24. Shohei Akita, Satoru Satake, Masahiro Shiomi, Michita Imai, Takayuki Kanda,
    "Social Coordination for Looking-Together Situations,"
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2018), pp.834-841, 2018.

  25. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Calibrating Depth Sensors for Pedestrian Tracking Using a Robot as a Movable and Localized Landmark,"
    The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2018) , pp.345-350, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  26. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "MetaHug: Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Stress Buffer Effect of Hug,"
    26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2018), pp.336-341, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  27. Masahiro Shiomi, Kodai Shatani, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Does a Robot's Subtle Pause in Reaction Time to People's Touch Contribute to Positive Influences?"
    26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2018), pp.364-369, 2018. (Preprint PDF)

  28. Zeynep Yucel, Francesco Zanlungo, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Walk the talk: Gestures in mobile interaction,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp.220-230, 2017.
    Acceptance rate = [30.5% (Oral presentatoin)]

  29. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Do Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Hug Impressions?,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 345-354, 2017. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [30.5% (Oral presentatoin)]

  30. Masahiro Shiomi, Aya Nakata, Masayuki Kanbara Norihiro Hagita
    "A Robot that Encourages Self-Disclosure by Hug,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 324-333, 2017. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [30.5% (Oral presentatoin)]

  31. Soto Okumura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Do Social Rewards from Robots Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skills?,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 32-41, 2017. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [30.5% (Oral presentatoin)]

  32. Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro
    "Subtle Reaction and Response Time Effects in Human-Robot Touch Interaction,"
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics, pp.242-251, 2017. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [65.0% (Inteactive presentatoin)]

  33. Yumiko Tamura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Effects of a Listener Robot with Children in Storytelling,"
    Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 35-43, 2017 (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [47.44%]

  34. Masahiro Shiomi, Aya Nakata, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "A Hug from a Robot Encourages Prosocial Behavior,"
    26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 418-423, 2017. (Preprint PDF)

  35. Kasumi Abe, Yuki Hamada, Takayuki Nagai, Masahiro Shiomi, and Takashi Omori
    "Estimation of Child Personality for Child-Robot Interaction,"
    26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp.910-915, 2017.

  36. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Do Synchronized Multiple Robots Exert Peer Pressure?"
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 27-33, 2016. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [43.9%]

  37. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Alignment Approach Comparison between Implicit and Explicit Suggestions in Object Reference Conversations"
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 193-200, 2016. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [43.9%]

  38. Takahiro Hirano, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takuya Nagashio, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Communication Cues in a Human-Robot Touch Interaction"
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 201-206, 2016. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [43.9%]

  39. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Social Acceptance of a Childcare Support Robot System"
    24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 13-18, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  40. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Ivan Tanev, katsunori shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Improvement of Object Reference Recognition through Human Robot Alignment"
    24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 337-342, 2015. (Preprint PDF)

  41. Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Koji Kamei, Chandraprakash Sharma, Norihiro Hagita,
    "User-friendly Autonomous Wheelchair for Elderly Care Using Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Human Agent Interaction, pp.17-22, 2014. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [44%]

  42. Tsuyoshi Komatsubara, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Can a Social Robot Help Children's Understanding of Science in Classrooms?"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Human Agent Interaction, pp.83-90, 2014. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [44%]

  43. Koji Kamei, Chandraprakash Sharma, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio,Tadahisa Kondo, Takahiro Miyashita, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Cloud Networked Robotics for Life Support Services - Robotic Service Platform Technologies and Standardisation -,"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Universal Village, (2014), (to appear)

  44. Masahiro Shiomi, Koji Kamei, Tadahisa Kondo, Takahiro Miyashita, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Robotic Service Coordination for Elderly People and Caregivers with Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform,"
    IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO2013), pp.57-62, 2013. (Preprint PDF)

  45. Dylan F. Glas, Kanae Wada, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Never too old for teleoperation: Helping elderly people control a conversational service robot,"
    IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Communication (ROMAN2013), pp. 703-710, 2013.

  46. Chao Shi, Masahiro Shiomi, Christian Smith, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "A model of distributional handing interaction for a mobile robot,"
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2013.
    Acceptance rate = [30%].

  47. Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Takayuki Kanda, Drazen Brscic, and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Will I bother here? - A robot anticipating its influence on pedestrian walking comfort -,"
    8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI2013), to apeear, 2013.
    Acceptance rate = [25%].

  48. Masahiro Shiomi, Francesco Zanlungo, Kotaro Hayashi and Takayuki Kanda,
    "A Framework with a Pedestrian Simulator for Deploying Robots into a Real Environment,"
    Simulation, modeling, and programming for autonomous robots (SIMPAR2012), 2012. (Preprint PDF)

  49. Tetsushi Ikeda, Yoshihiro Chigodo, Daniel Rea, Francesco Zanlungo, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda,
    "Modeling and Prediction of Pedestrian Behavior based on the Sub-goal Concept,"
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2012.
    Acceptance rate = [33.0%].

  50. Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Friendly Patrolling: A Model of Natural Encounters,"
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2011.
    Acceptance rate = [24.6%].

  51. Yamato Iwamura, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Do Elderly People Prefer a Conversational Humanoid as a Shopping Assistant Partner in Supermarkets?,"
    6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI2011), pp. 449-456, 2011. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [22%].

  52. Kayako Nakagawa, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Reo Matsumura, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Effect of Robot's Active Touch on People's Motivation,"
    6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI2011), pp. 465-472, 2011. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [22%].

  53. Koji Kamei, Tetsushi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Kidokoro, Masahiro Shiomi, Akira Utsumi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takahiro Miyashita, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Effectiveness of Cooperative Customer Navigation from Robots around a Retail Shop,"
    Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2011), pp.235-241, 2011.

  54. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takaaki Akimoto, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "An entrainment of pointing gestures via robot motion",
    The International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2010), pp.372-381, Nov, 2010.

  55. Masahiro Shiomi, Kayako Nakagawa, Reo MATSUMURA, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    " "Could I Have a Word?" : Effects of Robot’s Whisper,"
    2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3899-3904, 2010
    Acceptance rate = [58.3%].

  56. Alvaro Castro Gonzalez*, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Miguel A. Salichs, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Position Prediction in Crossing Behaviors,"
    2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,pp. 5430 - 5437, 2010
    Acceptance rate = [58.3%].

  57. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takaaki Akimoto, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Mutual Entrainment: Implicit Elicitation of Human Gestures by Robot Speech,"
    2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5294 - 5301, 2010
    Acceptance rate = [58.3%].

  58. Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita
    "Who is Appropriate? A Robot, Human and Mascot Perform Three Troublesome Tasks,"
    19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 348 - 354, 2010
    Acceptance rate = [53.5%].

  59. Tetsushi Ikeda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Person Identification by Integrating Wearable Sensors and Tracking Results from Environmental Sensors,"
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2637-2642, May 3 - 8, 2010.
    Acceptance rate = [41.1%].

  60. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "A Larger Audience, Please! - Encouraging people to listen to a guide robot -",
    5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI2010), pp.31-38, 2010. (Preprint PDF)
    Acceptance rate = [20.9%].

  61. Ian Fasel, Masahiro Shiomi, Pilippe-Emmanuel Chadutaud, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Multi-Modal Features for Real-Time Detection of Human-Robot Interaction Categories,"
    ICMI-MLMI, Cambridge, MA 2009.
    Acceptance rate = [36%].

  62. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Satoru Satake, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Field Trial of Networked Social Robots in a Shopping Mall",
    The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS2009), pp. 2846-2853, 2009.
    Acceptance rate = [55%].

  63. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takahiro Miyashita, Takaaki Akimoto, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Lexical Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction: - Can Robots Entrain Human Vocabulary? -",
    The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS2009), pp. 3727-3734, 2009.
    Acceptance rate = [55%].

  64. Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Zenta Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "An affective guide robot in a shopping mall",
    4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI2009), pp.173-180, 2009.
    Acceptance rate = [19%].

  65. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Kenta Nohara, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Adaptive supervisory controls of a communication robot that approaches visitors,"
    International symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), pp.553-563, 2008. (Oral presantation, acceptance rate = 30%)

  66. Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    " Who will be the customer?: A social robot that anticipates people's behavior from their trajectories, "
    Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008), pp.380-389, 2008. (acceptance rate = 19%)

  67. Shuichi Nishio, Norihiro Hagita, Takahiro Miyashita, Takayuki Kanda, Noriaki Mitsunaga, Masahiro Shiomi and Tatsuya Yamazaki,
    "Robotic Platforms Structuring Information on People and Environment,"
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS), pp.2637-2642, 2008. (acceptance rate = 49%)

  68. Kenta Nohara, Taichi Tajika, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Integrating Passive RFID tag and Person Tracking for Social Interaction in Daily Life,"
    International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2008), pp. 545-552, Aug. 2008. (to appear)

  69. Masahiro Shiomi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "A Semi-autonomous Communication Robot -A Field Trial at a Train Station -,"
    ACM/IEEE 3rd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2008), pp. 303-310, 2008.
    (Poster presentation, acceptance rate = 35%)

  70. Masahiro Shiomi, Kenta Nohara, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Estimating Group States for Interactive Humanoid Robots,"
    IEEE International Conference on Humanoids, pp. 318-323, Dec. 2007.

  71. Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Laurent Perrin, Tatsuya Nomura, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Analysis of People Trajectories with Ubiquitous Sensors in a Science Museum,"
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), pp.4846-4853, Apr. 2007. (acceptance rate = 44%)

  72. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Group attention control for communication robots with wizard of OZ approach",
    ACM 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2007), pp. 121-128, Mar. 2007. (acceptance rate = 22%).

  73. Kotaro Hayashi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Satoshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Ishigro, Tsukasa Ogasawara, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium - a field experiment at a train station -"
    ACM 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2007), pp. 137-144, Mar. 2007. (acceptance rate = 22%).

  74. Satoshi Koizumi, Takayuki Kanda, Shiomi Masahiro, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Preliminary Field Trial for Teleoperated Communication Robots",
    IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication (ROMAN2006), pp. 145-150, 2006. (Sep. 6-8, Hatfield, United Kingdom)

  75. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Interactive Humanoid Robots for a Science Museum",
    1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2006), pp. 305-312, Mar. 2006 (acceptance rate = 32%). (March 2-4, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)

  76. Masahiro Shiomi,Takayuki Kanda, Kiyosi Kogure, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Position estimation from multiple RFID tag readers",
    The 2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAmI2005), Nov. 2005.

  77. Takayuki Kanda, Kayoko Iwase, Masahiro Shiomi and Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "A tension-moderating mechanism for promoting speech-based human-robot interaction",
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2005), pp. 527-532, 2005. (Aug. 2-6, Edmonton, Canada)

  78. Tatsuya Nomura, Takugo Tasaki, Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Questionnaire-Based Research on Opinions of Visitors for Communication Robots at an Exhibition in Japan",
    International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact 2005),pp.685-698, Sep. 2005. (acceptance rate = 27%).

  79. T. Miyashita, M. Shiomi and H. Ishiguro
    "Multisensor-based Human Tracking Behaviors with Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods",
    Humanoids2004 CD-ROM, ISBN 3-00-012047-5, Nov. 2004.

  80. M. Shiomi, T. Kanda, N. MIralles, T. Miyashita, I. Fasel, J. Movellan and H. Ishiguro,
    "Face-to-face interactive humanoid robot",
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.1340-1346, Sep. 2004 (acceptance rate = 55%).


8 Awards


  1. The 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering 2018 (APWC on CSE 2018),
    Best Paper Award,
    "Lexical Entrainment in Interaction with Two Robots,"

  2. The Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2017),
    Finalist of Best Paper Award,
    "Do Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Hug Impressions?,"

  3. The Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI2016),
    Finalist of Best Student Paper Award,
    "Alignment Approach Comparison between Implicit and Explicit Suggestions in Object Reference Conversations" , 2016.

  4. The Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (HAI2016),
    Finalist of Best Student Paper Award,
    "Communication Cues in Human-Robot Touch Interaction", 2016.

  5. 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2013) ,
    Best Paper Award ,
    "Will I Bother Here? A robot anticipating its influence on pedestrian walking comfort" , 2013.

  6. The International Conference on Social Robotics 2010,
    Best Student Paper Finalist,
    "An entrainment of pointing gestures via robot motion",

  7. The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009),
    Finalist of Award for Entertainment Robots and Systems(NTF Award),
    "Field Trial of Networked Social Robots in a Shopping Mall" , 2009.

  8. ACM 2nd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2007),
    Best Paper Award ,
    "Humanoid robots as a passive-social medium - a field experiment at a train station" , 2007.


3 Chapters in Books


  1. Takayuki Kanda, Masahiro Shiomi and Norihiro Hagita
    "Communication robots: Application challenges of human-robot interaction"
    Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders, New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, 2011.

  2. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Application of RFID Technologies for Communication Robots",
    S. Ahson (Ed.), RFID Handbook: Applications, Technology, Security, and Privacy, 2008.

  3. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita
    "Communication Robots in Real Environments",
    Matthias Hackel, Humanoid Robots, Advanced Robotic Systems, pp. 567-576, 2007.


4 Invited Talk

  1. Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Cloud networked robotics that interact with people in real environments,"
    History & Future of Care Robots, 2024.

  2. Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Case Studies in Japan",
    Workshop on Cultural Influences in Human-Robot Interaction: Today and Tomorrow, 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2022.

  3. Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction",
    WHC2019 Workshop W5: Affective Haptics as a Direct Link to Emotion, 2019.

  4. Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Robot applications and industry",
    54nd APEC TEL Working group meeting,(DSG) Industry roundtable on ICT solutions for aging society, Nov. 2016.

34 Other Papers

  1. Takuto Akiyoshi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Hirokazu Kumazaki, Junya Nakanishi, Hirokazu Kato, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Practical Development of a Robot to Assist Cognitive Reconstruction in Psychiatric Day Care,"
    HRI2023, pp.572-575, 2023.

  2. Aidan Edward Fox-Tierney, Kurima Sakai, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Sawarimoto: A Vision and Touch Sensor-based Method for Automatic or Tele-operated Android-to-human Face Touch,"
    HRI2023, pp.481-485, 2023.

  3. Yuya Onishi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Designing a Robot which Touches the User’s Head with Intra-Hug Gestures,"
    HRI2023, pp.314-317, 2023.

  4. Ayumi Hayashi, Emi Anzai, Naoki Saiwaki, Hidenobu Sumioka, Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Does Encouraging Self-touching Behaviors with Supportive Voices Increase Stress-buffering Effects?",
    HRI2022,pp.787-791, 2022.

  5. Eduardo Duarte, Masahiro Shiomi, Alexey Vinel, Martin Cooney,
    "Robot Self-defense: Robot, don’t hurt me, no more",
    HRI2022,pp.742-745, 2022.

  6. Atsumu Kubota, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Masahiro Shiomi,
    Priming Effects on Reaction Time toward Touch via a Web-survey: Human Reaction or Android Reaction?,
    Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction,pp.172-175, 2021

  7. Masahiro Shioimi,
    "Pre-touch proxemics: Modeling of Pre-Touch Reaction Distance,"
    Socialware in human-robot collaboration and physical interaction, an international workshop held at the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020,

  8. Xiqian Zheng, Masahiro Shiomi, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro,
    "Preliminary Investigation about Relationship between Perceived Intimacy and Touch Characteristics,"
    The 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS2019), pp. 3409, 2019.

  9. Yumiko Tamura, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Investigating Impression of Storytelling with Robots to Multiple Children?"
    The 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering 2018 (APWC on CSE 2018).

  10. Aoba Saito, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Shinya Otani, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Lexical entrainment in interaction with two robots"
    The 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering 2018 (APWC on CSE 2018).

  11. Shinya Otani, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "The Influence of priming information for the robots on peer pressure"
    The 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering 2018 (APWC on CSE 2018).

  12. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Influence for Impression on Caregiving Task by Communicating Robot's Motion State through Conversatoin between Robots"
    The 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering 2018 (APWC on CSE 2018).

  13. Reo Matsumura, Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Does an Animation Character Robot Increase Sales?"
    Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, Poster session, 2017 (to appear).

  14. Aya Nakata, Masahiro Shiomi, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Does a Reciprocated Hug from a Robot Encourage Self-Disclosure?"
    HRI2017 Late Breaking Reports, 2017.

  15. Aya Nakata, Masahiro Shiomi, Masayuki Kanbara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Does a Reciprocated Hug from a Robot Encourage Prosocial Behavior?"
    HRI2017 Late Breaking Reports, 2017.

  16. Masahiro Shiomi, Kasumi Abe, Yachao Pei, Narumitsu Ikeda, Takayuki Nagai,
    "I'm Scared": Little Children Reject Robots,"
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 245-247, 2016.

  17. Masahiro Shiomi, Kasumi Abe, Yachao Pei, Tingyi Zhang, Narumitsu Ikeda, Takayuki Nagai,
    "ChiCaRo: Tele-presence Robot for Interacting with Babies and Toddlers,"
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction, pp. 349-351, 2016.

  18. Kimoto, Mitsuhiko, Tomoki Nakahata, Takahiro Hirano, Takuya Nagashio, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Ivan Tanev, and Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Video Recommendation System that Arranges Video Clips Based on Pre-defined Viewing Times,"
    In International Conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information, pp. 478-486. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

  19. Kasumi Abe, Yachao Pei, Zhang Tingyi, Chie Hieida Takayuki Nagai and Masahiro Shiomi,
    "Telepresence Childcare Robot for Playing with Children from a Remote Location,"
    The 2015 JSME/RMD International Conference on Advanced Mechatronics, 2015 (to apeear)

  20. Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara,
    "Self-Organizing of Information by Rhizomic-Link which Autonomously Grows: Modeling and Evaluation of Rhizomic-Link Mechanism,"
    The 34th Chinese Control Conference and SICE Annual Conference 2015 (CCC & SICE2015), Hangzhou, China, 2015.

  21. Tomoki Nakahata, Masahiro Shiomi, Takamasa Iio, Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara
    "Voluntary stop supports of video viewing for children,"
    The 34th Chinese Control Conference and SICE Annual Conference 2015 (CCC & SICE2015), Hangzhou, China, 2015.

  22. Junya Nakanishi, Daisuke Nakamichi, Hidenobu Sumioka, Kurima Sakai, Masahiro Shiomi, Hiroshi Ishiguro
    "A huggable communication medium induces listening to others,"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Human Agent Interaction, poster session, pp.249-252, 2014.

  23. Masahiro Shiomi, Norihiro Hagita
    "Preliminary Investigation of Supporting Child-Care at an Intelligent Playroom,"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Human Agent Interaction, poster session,, pp.157-160, 2014.

  24. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Koji Kamei, Chandraprakash Sharma, Norihiro Hagita
    "Social Acceptance by Elderly People of a Fall-detection System with Range Sensors in a Nursing Home,"
    The 2nd Int. Conf. on Human Agent Interaction, poster session, pp.153-156, 2014.

  25. Norihiro Hagita, Koji Kamei, Dylan F. Glas, Masahiro Shiomi, Takahiro Miyashita
    "Robotic Services for Super-Aging Society -Service Development with Cloud Networked Robotics Technologies-,"
    Proceedings of the workshop Crossing the Reality Gap: Control, Human Interaction and Cloud Technology for Multi- and Many- Robot Systems,
    2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2014. Hong Kong, China, May 31 - June 7, 2014

  26. Masahiro Shiomi
    "Enabling a mobile social robot to adapt to a public space in a city,"
    International Joint Workshop on Advanced Sensing / Visual Attention and Interaction,
    -Toward Creation of Human-Harmonized Information Technology-,2013.

  27. Chao Shi, Masahiro Shiomi, Christian Smith, Takayuki Kanda, and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    "A model of handing interaction towards a pedestrian"
    HRI2013 Video Session, 2013.

  28. Dylan F. Glas, Kanae Wada, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita
    "Personal service: A robot that greets people individually based on observed behavior patterns"
    HRI2013 Late Breaking Reports, 2013.

  29. Haruaki Fukuda, Masahiro Shiomi, Kayako Nakagawa, and Kazuhiro Ueda
    "'Midas Touch' in Human-Robot Interaction: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials during the Ultimatum Game"
    HRI2012 Late Breaking Reports, 2012.

  30. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takaaki Akimoto, Katsunori Shimohara and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Cross-modal effects between gestures and words in human robot interaction,"
    Artificial Life and Robotics 2011.

  31. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Satoru Satake, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita,
    "Field Trials of Networked Social Robots in daily environments,"
    IROS2010 Workshop on Ubiquitous Network Robots.

  32. Takamasa Iio, Masahiro Shiomi, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Takaaki Akimoto, Katsunori Shimohara, Norihiro Hagita
    "Entrainment between Speech and Gestures in Human-Robot Interaction,"
    SICE Annual Control Conference 2010.

  33. Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Kenta Nohara, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Norihiro Hagita,
    "Adaptive supervisory controls of a communication robot to approach visitors,"
    Proceedings of Workshop on network robot services for the elderly at IROS2009, 2009.

  34. H. Ishiguro, M,. Shiomi, T. Kanda, D. Eaton, and N. Hagita,
    "Field experiment in a science museum with communication robots and a ubiquitous sensor network",
    Proceedings of Workshop on network robot system at ICRA2005, 2005.

Academic services

  1. HRI Program Chair, 2022
  2. Advanced Robotics,Editorial and Review Board,2021~
  3. HAI Program Chair, 2021
  4. RO-MAN Program Chair, 2021
  5. THRI Associate Editor, 2017~2021
  6. HRI PC member, 2017, 2021
  7. RO-MAN Associate Editor, 2016~2018
  8. HRI Publicity Chair, 2015~2017
  9. HRI Financial Chair, 2013~2014
  10. 日本ロボット学会誌,会誌編集委員,2010年4月〜2011年3月
  11. ICSR2010, Publicity Co-Chair, 2010
  12. HRI2010, Local Bus Tour Arrangement, 2010
  13. 情報処理学会関西支部, 社会知能研究会幹事, 2009年4月〜2011年3月
  14. FIRA2009, Program Committee, 2009

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