As part of the cross-cultural project CULSHY (Cross-cultural studies on shyness: Experimental studies on gesture production of school-aged children and their nonverbal communicative behavior in a child-robot interaction) I am on a research stay at Waseda University in Tokyo from September to October.

In the project, led by Katharina Rohlfing and Kazuki Sekine, we are investigating the communicative behavior of preschool children towards social robots cross-culturally. During my research stay, we were able to test the study design and conduct first pilots.