Emotion and sociable humanoid robots

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

TAME: Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots

Moshkina

Park

Arkin

et al. 2011

“…We can benefit from discussions about Mori's 'Uncanny Valley' hypothesis [19], which again depend on appearance: the hypothesis is that robots who appear almost human, 2 can make us feel uncanny (Freud's term is unheimlich). We can also use research on interaction with humanoid robots and pet robots, such as work from Breazeal [20] and Turkle [2,21]. We can learn from studies of perception and media [22] that even computers or simple objects can make us treat them human-like, from which we can conclude that human-robot 'social' interaction is less hard to achieve than those who focus on the 'mind' of the robot may think.…”

Section: Roboethics As An Ethics Of Appearancementioning

confidence: 99%

Personal Robots, Appearance, and Human Good: A Methodological Reflection on Roboethics

Coeckelbergh

2009

The development of pet robots, toy robots, and sex robots suggests a near-future scenario of habitual living with 'personal' robots. How should we evaluate their potential impact on the quality of our lives and existence?In this paper, I argue for an approach to ethics of personal robots that advocates a methodological turn from robots to humans, from mind to interaction, from intelligent thinking to social-emotional being, from reality to appearance, from right to good, from external criteria to good internal to practice, and from theory to experience and imagination. First I outline what I take to be a common approach to roboethics, then I sketch the contours of an alternative methodology: ethics of personal robots as an ethics of appearance, human good, experience, and imagination.The result is a sketch of an empirically informed anthropocentric ethics that aims at understanding and evaluating what robots do to humans as social and emotional beings in virtue of their appearance, in particular how they may contribute to human good and human flourishing. Starting from concrete experience and practice and being sufficiently sensitive to individual and cultural differences, this approach invites us to be attentive to how human good emerges in human-robot interaction and to imagine, possibilities of living with personal robots that help to constitute good human lives.

“…Robotics is moving from cells of industrial manipulators to shared environments where humans and robots have to interact [10,44]. The increasing interest in Human-Robot Interaction and social robotics [4] has naturally lead to the question of whether robots should be endowed with emotions [11] and emphatic behaviours [3,43].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting the Robot Kinematic Redundancy for Emotion Conveyance to Humans as a Lower Priority Task

Claret

Venture

Basañez

2017

Current approaches do not allow robots to execute a task and simultaneously convey emotions to users using their body motions. This paper explores the capabilities of the Jacobian null space of a humanoid robot to convey emotions. A task priority formulation has been implemented in a Pepper robot which allows the specification of a primary task (waving gesture, transportation of an object, etc.) and exploits the kinematic redundancy of the robot to convey emotions to humans as a lower priority task. The emotions, defined by Mehrabian as points in the Pleasure -Arousal -Dominance space, generate intermediate motion features (jerkiness, activity and gaze) that carry the emotional information. A map from this features to the joints of the robot is presented. A user study has been conducted in which emotional motions have been shown to 30 participants. The results show that happiness and sadness are very well conveyed to the user, calm is moderately well conveyed, and fear is not well conveyed. An analysis on the dependencies between the motion features and the emotions perceived by This work has been partially supported by the Spanish MINECO projects DPI2011-22471, DPI2013-40882-P and DPI2014-57757-R, the Spanish predoctoral grant BES-2012-054899, and the Japanese challenging exploratory research grant 15K12124. The authors would like to thank the members of the GVLab for their invaluable support with the translations and attending the local participants during the user study.Josep-Arnau Claret Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain E-mail: josep.arnau.claret@upc.edu Gentiane Venture Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan E-mail: venture@cc.tuat.ac.jp Luis Basañez Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain E-mail: luis.basanez@upc.edu the participants shows that activity correlates positively with arousal, jerkiness is not perceived by the user, and gaze conveys dominance when activity is low. The results indicate a strong influence of the most energetic motions of the emotional task and point out new directions for further research. Overall, the results show that the null space approach can be regarded as a promising mean to convey emotions as a lower priority task.