Michihiro Shimada

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michihiro Shimada is involved.

Article

Shimada, Michihiro and Takayuki Kanda 2012 What is the appropriate speech rate for a communication robot? Interaction Studies 13:3, pp. 408–435 | Article

This study investigates the influence of a robot’s speech rate. In human communication, slow speech is considered boring, speech at normal speed is perceived as credible, and fast speech is perceived as competent. To seek the appropriate speech rate for robots, we test whether these tendencies are… read more