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Interpretation of emotional body language displayed by robots

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Aryel Beck,

Antoine Hiolle,

Alexandre Mazel,

Lola CañameroAuthors Info & Claims

AFFINE '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Affective interaction in natural environments

Pages 37 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/1877826.1877837

Published: 29 October 2010 Publication History

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In order for robots to be socially accepted and generate empathy they must display emotions. For robots such as Nao, body language is the best medium available, as they do not have the ability to display facial expressions. Displaying emotional body language that can be interpreted whilst interacting with the robot should greatly improve its acceptance.

This research investigates the creation of an "Affect Space" [1] for the generation of emotional body language that could be displayed by robots. An Affect Space is generated by "blending" (i.e. interpolating between) different emotional expressions to create new ones. An Affect Space for body language based on the Circumplex Model of emotions [2] has been created.

The experiment reported in this paper investigated the perception of specific key poses from the Affect Space. The results suggest that this Affect Space for body expressions can be used to improve the expressiveness of humanoid robots.

In addition, early results of a pilot study are described. It revealed that the context helps human subjects improve their recognition rate during a human-robot imitation game, and in turn this recognition leads to better outcome of the interactions.

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Interpretation of emotional body language displayed by robots
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Computing methodologies
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    1. Control methods
      1. Robotic planning
    2. Planning and scheduling
      1. Robotic planning

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AFFINE '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Affective interaction in natural environments

October 2010

106 pages

ISBN:9781450301701

DOI:10.1145/1877826

Program Chairs:
Ginevra Castellano
Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Kostas Karpouzis
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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Jean-Claude Martin
LIMSI-CNRS, France
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Louis-Philippe Morency
University of Southern California, USA
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Christopher Peters
Coventry University, UK
,
Laurel Riek
University of Cambridge, UK

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