Emotions in robot psychology

Nitsch, Verena; Popp, Michael

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“…Emotion expressed through the face is also considered to be especially important as a means for communicating evaluations and appraisals (Parkinson, 1996). Given the importance of facial expressions to the communication of human affect, they should also have significant potential as a communication means for humanoid robots (Nitsch, & Popp, 2014). This intuition has led to the development of many robot platforms with the capacity to produce human-like facial expression, ranging from the more iconic/cartoon-like (e.g., Breazeal, 2003;Ros, et al 2011) to the more natural/realistic (e.g., -Asano, & Ishiguro, 2011;Mazzei, Lazzeri, Hanson, & De Rossi, 2012).…”

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The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study

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Emotions, and emotional expression, have a broad influence on social interactions and are thus a key factor to consider in developing social robots. This study examined the impact of life-like affective facial expressions, in the humanoid robot Zeno, on children's behaviour and attitudes towards the robot. Results indicate that robot expressions have mixed effects depending on participant gender. Male participants interacting with a responsive facially-expressive robot showed a positive affective response, and indicated greater liking towards the robot, compared to those interacting with the same robot maintaining a neutral expression. Female participants showed no marked difference across the conditions. We discuss the broader implications of these findings in terms of gender differences in HRI, noting the importance of the gender appearance in robots (in this case, male) and in relation to advancing the understanding of how interactions with expressive robots could lead to taskappropriate symbiotic relationships.

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The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study

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“…In the last few years impressive improvements have been achieved in this field and it has been proved by separate studies that humans can successfully recognize emotions displayed by a humanoid face of robots or virtual agents (see also the above mentioned studies and for other examples e.g. [19] , [20] ; or for a review see [21] ). Moreover, some studies provided evidence suggesting that emotions expressed by a humanoid robot face evoke similar emotions in humans as well (e.g.…”

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“…Moreover, some studies provided evidence suggesting that emotions expressed by a humanoid robot face evoke similar emotions in humans as well (e.g. [22] , for a review see [21] ). Although, a recent study of Chaminade et al [23] showed that on the level of neural responses humans react differently to the emotional expressions of a humanoid robot and of a human.…”

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“…Hereby, it is extremely hard for robot designers to mimic human behaviour successfully and the robots mimicking human behaviour will never be perfect “humans”. This can lead to mismatches between the appearance and the behaviour, which means that the users' prior - often unrealistic – expectations, mostly based on the appearance, will be violated resulting in a feeling of unease [21] , [24] , [25] . This is the well-known phenomenon of the “uncanny valley” [26] , that is, agents which are very but not totally similar to humans, induce aversion in people.…”

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Emotion Attribution to a Non-Humanoid Robot in Different Social Situations

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In the last few years there was an increasing interest in building companion robots that interact in a socially acceptable way with humans. In order to interact in a meaningful way a robot has to convey intentionality and emotions of some sort in order to increase believability. We suggest that human-robot interaction should be considered as a specific form of inter-specific interaction and that human–animal interaction can provide a useful biological model for designing social robots. Dogs can provide a promising biological model since during the domestication process dogs were able to adapt to the human environment and to participate in complex social interactions. In this observational study we propose to design emotionally expressive behaviour of robots using the behaviour of dogs as inspiration and to test these dog-inspired robots with humans in inter-specific context. In two experiments (wizard-of-oz scenarios) we examined humans' ability to recognize two basic and a secondary emotion expressed by a robot. In Experiment 1 we provided our companion robot with two kinds of emotional behaviour (“happiness” and “fear”), and studied whether people attribute the appropriate emotion to the robot, and interact with it accordingly. In Experiment 2 we investigated whether participants tend to attribute guilty behaviour to a robot in a relevant context by examining whether relying on the robot's greeting behaviour human participants can detect if the robot transgressed a predetermined rule. Results of Experiment 1 showed that people readily attribute emotions to a social robot and interact with it in accordance with the expressed emotional behaviour. Results of Experiment 2 showed that people are able to recognize if the robot transgressed on the basis of its greeting behaviour. In summary, our findings showed that dog-inspired behaviour is a suitable medium for making people attribute emotional states to a non-humanoid robot.

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“…Every step in technology, added new aspects to the development of machines; machines which have the strength and abilities to do things like a human! Their potential abilities are growing with the research in psychology, neuroscience, and computer science and engineering (Nitsch & Popp, 2014). And finally, with these steps we started to see the reality of artificial intelligence.…”

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Robots As Our New Coworkers: The Influence of Anthropomorphism on Employees' Preference of Levels of Automation

Erebak¹,

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2018

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ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACTArticle history:Received Objectives: Eldercare facilities are one of those organizations which are expected to use robots in order to fulfill the needs of aging population. So, the main aim of this study is to understand employees' standing point about their potential robot coworkers in eldercare. While variety of designs were developed for robot appearance, it is important to see whether there is any influence of this appearance on users' preference of level of automation.. Results:The degree of human likeness of robots was not an influencer for preference of level of automation. Moreover, demographic variables such as gender and education level did not make a considerable difference on the preference of levels of automation.Originality: This is the first time that the influence of anthropomorphism on the preference of levels of automation was focused. Also, the idea of understanding the potential users', employees' perception for designs of robots was emphasized; and therefore human-centered approach for technology adaptation was supported. MAKALE BİLGİSİ ÖZMakale Tarihçesi: Başvuru Amaç: Yaşlı bakım kuruluşları yaşlanan nüfusun ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak için robotları kullanması beklenen örgütlerdendir. Dolayısıyla, bu çalışmanın temel amacı yaşlı bakımında çalışanların potansiyel çalışma arkadaşları olan robotlara karşı bakış açısını anlamaktır. Robotların görünümü için çeşitli dizaynlar geliştirilirken, bu görünümlerin kullanıcıların otomasyon seviyesi tercihi üzerinde etkisinin olup olmadığını görmek önemlidir 14.11.2017 Revizyon -Tasarım/Yöntem: Yaşlı bakımı için huzurevinde çalışan 102 bakıcı (19 ve 40 yaş arasında) tasarlanan deneye katılmıştır. Analizler için bağımsız gruplar t-testi kullanılmıştır. Kabul Sonuçlar: Robotların insansılık oranlarının otomasyon seviyeleri tercihinde bir etken olmadığı bulunmuştur. Ayrıca cinsiyetin ve eğitim seviyesinin de otomasyon seviyeleri tercihinde bir fark yaratmadığı anlaşılmıştır.Özgün Değer: Bu çalışmayla tercih edilen otomasyon seviyeleri üzerinde insan biçimciliğin etkisine ilk defa odaklanılmıştır. Ayrıca robotların dizaynı hakkında potansiyel kullanıcı olarak çalışanların bakış açılarının anlaşılması fikri vurgulanmış, insan merkezli teknoloji adaptasyonu desteklenmiştir.

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Emotions in robot psychology

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study

The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study

Emotion Attribution to a Non-Humanoid Robot in Different Social Situations

Robots As Our New Coworkers: The Influence of Anthropomorphism on Employees' Preference of Levels of Automation

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