About the Authors

Takayuki Kanda received his bachelor’s and master’s in engineering, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2003, he was an intern researcher at ATR Media Information Science Laboratories, and he is currently a senior researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. His current research interests include intelligent robotics, human–robot interaction, and vision-based mobile robots. Dr. Kanda was named to serve as a steering committee co-chair of ACM/IEEE international conference of human–robot interaction from 2010 to 2013.

Hiroshi Ishiguro received his doctoral degree in engineering from Osaka University, ...

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