A design model of emotional body expressions in non-humanoid robots

Jekaterina Novikova; L A Watts

doi:10.1145/2658861.2658892

A design model of emotional body expressions in non-humanoid robots

Jekaterina Novikova, L A Watts

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Robotic emotional expressions could benefit social communication between humans and robots, if the cues such expressions contain were to be intelligible to human observers. In this paper, we present a design framework for modelling emotionally expressive robotic movements. The framework combines approach-avoidance with Shape and Effort dimensions, derived from Laban, and makes use of anatomical body planes that are general to both humanoid and non-humanoid body forms. An experimental validation study is reported with 34 participants rating an implementation of five expressive behaviours on a non-humanoid robotic platform. The results demonstrate that such expressions can encode basic emotional information, in that the parameters of the proposed design model can convey the meaning of emotional dimensions of valence, arousal and dominance. The framework thus creates a basis for implementing a set of emotional expressions that are appropriately adapted to contexts of humanrobot
joint activity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HAI 2014 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	353-360
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450330350
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2658861.2658892
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014) - Tsukuba, Japan Duration: 28 Oct 2014 → 31 Oct 2014

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Conference	The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014)
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tsukuba
Period	28/10/14 → 31/10/14

Keywords

Emotional body language
Human-robot interaction
On-humanoid robots
Robot emotions

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Novikova, J & Watts, LA 2014, A design model of emotional body expressions in non-humanoid robots. in HAI 2014 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 353-360, The Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014), Tsukuba, Japan, 28/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2658861.2658892

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