Publications by authors named "Hirotada Ueda"
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- Eating alone can lead to psychological distress, but the impact of eating together online on autonomic nervous system functions was previously unstudied.
- In a pilot study, healthy volunteers were divided into two groups: one eating together online and the other eating alone, to measure changes in heart rate variability (HRV).
- Results showed that participants who ate together online experienced a significant increase in HRV, indicating improved autonomic nervous system function and suggesting that social eating may promote physiological synchrony. *
Introduction: In an aging society that is more and more information-oriented, being able to replace human passengers' protective effects on vehicle drivers with those of social robots is both essential and promising. However, the effects of a social robot's presence on drivers have not yet been fully explored. Thus, using a driving simulator and a conversation robot, this experimental study had two main goals: (a) to find out whether social robots' anthropomorphic qualities (i.
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