TAME: Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots

Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.

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“…The like or dislike toward a person or an object may serve as a stimulus for emotion generation (Moshkina, Park, Arkin, Lee, & Jung, 2011).…”

Section:  Sound and Light Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attitudes appear and change in response to particular stimuli, such as dislike toward an unfriendly person (Moshkina et al, 2011).…”

Section:  Sound and Light Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Sánchez

Correal

Guerrero

2017

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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“…Fortunately, we have considerable experience in modeling and embedding affect in robotic systems, always based on models derived from cognitive science [4,5,19,25,28]. The infrastructure exists within our MissionLab system [11,17] to be able to facilitate the extension of this approach to lead directly to testing and evaluation.…”

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Preserving dignity in patient caregiver relationships using moral emotions and robots

Arkin

Scheutz

Tickle-Degnen

2014

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering

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Abstract-This paper provides an overview of an ongoing NSF project that is intended to improve the long-term quality of care for patients suffering from early stage Parkinson's disease. Due to facial masking in the patient, a stigmatization often occurs in their relationship with the caregiver due to the inability to adequately perceive the patient's emotional state. We are developing robot co-mediators to assist in the transmission of this information through the use of artificial moral emotions that trigger suitable proxemic expressions in the robot, with the goal of ensuring that the quality of the patient-caregiver relationship is preserved.

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“…Duhaut [14] presented a computational model which includes emotion and personality in the robotic behaviors. The Traits, Attributes, Moods, and Emotions framework proposed by Moshkina et al gives a model of time-varying affective response for humanoid robots [15]. Itoh et al [16] proposed an emotion generation model which can assess the robot's individuality and internal state through mood transitions.…”

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Robotic Emotional Expression Generation Based on Mood Transition and Personality Model

Han

Lin

Song

2013

IEEE Trans. Cybern.

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This paper presents a method of mood transition design of a robot for autonomous emotional interaction with humans. A 2-D emotional model is proposed to combine robot emotion, mood, and personality in order to generate emotional expressions. In this design, the robot personality is programmed by adjusting the factors of the five factor model proposed by psychologists. From Big Five personality traits, the influence factors of robot mood transition are determined. Furthermore, a method to fuse basic robotic emotional behaviors is proposed in order to manifest robotic emotional states via continuous facial expressions. An artificial face on a screen is a way to provide a robot with a humanlike appearance, which might be useful for human-robot interaction. An artificial face simulator has been implemented to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods. Questionnaire surveys have been carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method by observing robotic responses to a user's emotional expressions. Preliminary experimental results on a robotic head show that the proposed mood state transition scheme appropriately responds to a user's emotional changes in a continuous manner.

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TAME: Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots

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Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Interactive Drama With Robots for Teaching Non-Technical Subjects

Preserving dignity in patient caregiver relationships using moral emotions and robots

Robotic Emotional Expression Generation Based on Mood Transition and Personality Model

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