Development and psychological evaluation of multimodal presentation markup language for humanoid robots

Research in robotics is growing and many robots are being produced. Robots are remarkable media because they can help humans and they can act in the real world. So, it is important to make the control of robots as easy as possible. For this reason we have developed the script language for humanoid robots called MPML for humanoid robots or MPML-HR which is simple enough to allow everyone to make multimodal presentation contents using the humanoid robot. Further, we evaluated the humanoid robot's presentation ability to find the difference in audience impression between the humanoid robot and the 2-D character agent. Psychological evaluation was used to compare the impression of the humanoid robot's presentation with the 2-D character agent's presentation. Two methods were used for psychological evaluation and the efficiency of the humanoid robot's presentation was verified