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A robot that is easy to teach not only has to be able to adapt to humans but also has to be easily adaptable to. In order to develop a robot with mutual adaptation ability, we believe that it will be beneficial to first observe the mutual adaptation behaviors that occur in human–human communication. In this paper, we propose a human–human WOZ (Wizard-of-Oz) experiment setting that can help us to observe and understand how the mutual adaptation procedure occurs between human beings in nonverbal communication. By analyzing the experimental results, we obtained three important findings: alignment-based action, symbol-emergent learning, and environmental learning.

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  1. Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yong Xu, Yasuyuki Sumi & Toyoaki Nishida

  2. Department of General System Studies, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

    Kazuhiro Ueda

  3. Department of Media Architecture, Future University-Hakodate, 116-2 Kamedanakano, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8655, Japan

    Takanori Komatsu

  4. Innovative Communication Laboratory, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, 619-0237, Japan

    Takeshi Okadome & Takashi Hattori

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Xu, Y., Ueda, K., Komatsu, T. et al. WOZ experiments for understanding mutual adaptation. AI & Soc 23, 201–212 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-007-0134-1

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