Turn-taking supports humanlikeness and communication in perceptual crossing experiments - Toward developing human-like communicable interface devices

Our aim of this paper is to investigate the human communication in terms of two following questions. One is how human can know the fact that an interacting partner is human. Another is how non-communicative behaviour can become communicative. To answer these questions, we performed two experiments exploiting the idea of perceptual crossing experiments. As a result, we will show that the turn-taking structure supports humanlikeness and human communication in the primitive non-verbal interaction. Our results will be discussed with ambient interface technology. Keywords-Ambient information society, behavioural turing test; emergence of communication; perceptual crossing