IEEE RO-MAN 2004 Members RO-MAN Standing Steering Committee: Fumio Harashima (Chair, Tokyo Denki Univ.) Massimo Bergamasco (Scuola Superiore S. Anna) Philippe Coiffet (CNRS) Toshio Fukuda (Univ. of Nagoya) Fumio Hara (Tokyo Univ. of Science) Hiroshi Harashima (Univ. of Tokyo) Seiji Hata (Kagawa Univ.) Hikaru Inooka (Univ. of Tohoku) Kohji Kamejima (Osaka Institute of Technology) Hisato Kobayashi (Hosei Univ.) Erwin Prassler (FAW-Ulm) Kazuo Tanie (National Institute of AIST) Hirofumi Tashiro (NAMCO Ltd.) H.F. Machiel Van der Loos (VA Palo Alto Health Care System) Kazuo Yana (Hosei Univ.) General Chair: Tomio Watanabe (Okayama Prefectural Univ.) Co-Chairs: Toshiro Noritsugu (Okayama Univ.) Masashi Okubo (Doshisha Univ.) International Program Committee: Chairs: Masashi Okubo (Doshisha Univ.), Yoshihiro Miyake (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Members: Akio Gofuku (Okayama Univ.) Ali Sekmen (Tenn. State Univ.) Hidetoshi Nakayasu (Konan Univ.) Ivan Tanev (Doshisha Univ.) Kazuhiko Kawamura (Vanderbilt Univ.) Kazuhiko Takahashi (Doshisha Univ.) Keny Sato (Doshisha Univ.) Kerstin Dautenhahn (Univ. of Hertfordshire) Marge Skubic (Univ. of Missouri) Masafumi Hashimoto (Doshisha Univ.) Micth Wilkes (Vanderbilt Univ.) Miho Ohsaki　(Doshisha Univ.) Teruaki Ito (Tokushima Univ.) Toshiro Noritsugu (Okayama Univ.) Vlaho Kostov (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) Yasunari Yoshitomi (Kyoto Prefectural Univ.) Organizing Committee: Chair: Akio Gofuku (Okayama Univ.) Members: Hirokazu Kato (Osaka Univ.) Hiroshi Shimoda (Kyoto Univ.) Makiko Nishida (Okayama Prefectural Univ.) Michiya Yamamoto (Okayama Prefectural Univ.) Mitsuru Jindai (Okayama Prefectural Univ.) Teruaki Ito (Tokushima Univ.) Yugo Takeuchi (Shizuoka Univ.) Yutaka Ishii (Kobe Univ.) Online Organizing Committee: Chair: Hidenori Ishihara (Kagawa Univ.) Members: Satoru Shibata, Tomonori Yamamoto (Ehime Univ.) Distance Session Chair: Kazuo Yana (Hosei Univ.) Registration / Publication: Yasue Hayashi, HyangSuk Kim, Miki Fujioka (Secretari@t) Co-sponsors IEEE Industrial Electronics Society The Robotics Society of Japan Human Interface Society CREST of Japan Science and Technology Agency IEEE Robotics and Automation Society New Technology Foundation Hosei University Research Institute, California Hosei University Information Technology Research Center Electric Technology Research Foundation of Chugoku Okayama Foundation for Science and Technology