The art of designing robot faces

Blow, Mike; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Appleby, Andrew; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.; Lee, David

doi:10.1145/1121241.1121301

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“…2) To be accepted by users in the long term and to offer added value, robotic systems must meet the requirements and needs of the users [18]. For the general acceptance of robots, it is necessary to select the optimal appearance and communication modalities for the corresponding target group and situational context [4]. In advancing from Kevin 1.0 to Kevin 2.0 we addressed these challenges in a systematic fashion.…”

Section: Two Step Development Processmentioning

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Designing the mobile robot Kevin for a life science laboratory

Kleine-Wechelmann

Bastiaanse

Freundel

et al. 2022

2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Laboratories are being increasingly automated. In small laboratories individual processes can be fully automated, but this is usually not economically viable. Nevertheless, individual process steps can be performed by flexible, mobile robots to relieve the laboratory staff. As a contribution to the requirements in a life science laboratory the mobile, dextrous robot Kevin was designed by the Fraunhofer IPA research institute in Stuttgart, Germany. Kevin is a mobile service robot which is able to fulfill non-value adding activities such as transportation of labware. This paper gives an overview of Kevin's functionalities, its development process, and presents a preliminary study on how its lights and sounds improve user interaction. 1 Sarah Kleine-Wechelmann and Matthias Freundel are with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA,

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Section: Two Step Development Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing the mobile robot Kevin for a life science laboratory

Kleine-Wechelmann

Bastiaanse

Freundel

et al. 2022

2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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“…The face serves as the focal point for a human interaction partner -intuitive interaction will be encouraged by displaying clear communicative features. Facial features can be designed with visual cues that help users understand a robot's capabilities [9]. Studies suggest that human-like face designs can create expectations of human-like mind and abilities [10].…”

Section: Face Designmentioning

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Emotion Model Implementation for Parameterized Facial Animation in Human-Robot-Interaction

Wittig¹,

Kloos²,

Rätsch³

2016

JCP

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In recent years robotic systems have matured enough to perform simple home or office tasks, guide visitors in environments such as museums or stores and aid people in their daily life. To make the interaction with service and even industrial robots as fast and intuitive as possible, researchers strive to create transparent interfaces close to human-human interaction. As facial expressions play a central role in human-human communication, robot faces were implemented with varying degrees of human-likeness and expressiveness. We propose an emotion model to parameterize a screen based facial animation via inter-process communication. A software will animate transitions and add additional animations to make a digital face appear "alive" and equip a robotic system with a virtual face. The result will be an inviting appearance to motivate potential users to seek interaction with the robot.

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“…Although reactiveness is a term that might involve a wide range of behaviors and situations, we have established a distinction between two types of reactions: task-related and nontask-related. Task-related responses are reactions to situations 1 Although some authors refer to these robots as responsive robots (see Section II), for the sake of clarity, we have used the term reactive robots most of the time. In our analysis of the state of the art, Section II, we have maintained the original terms used by the authors.…”

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Do You Want to Make Your Robot Warmer? Make it More Reactive!

Gimenez

Fernández-Rodicio

Castro‐González

et al. 2023

IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.

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Endowing robots with the ability to respond appropriately to stimuli contributes to the perception of an illusion of "life" in robots, which is determinant for their acceptance as companions. This work aims to study how a series of bio-inspired reactive responses impact on the way in which participants perceive a social robot. In particular, the proposed system endows the robot with the ability to react to stimuli that are not only related to the current task but are also related to other external events. We conducted an experiment where the participants observed a video-recorded interaction with two robots: one was able to respond to both task-related and non-task-related events, while the other was only able to react to task-related events. To evaluate the experiment, we used the RoSAS questionnaire. The results yielded significant differences for two factors, showing that the addition of responses to non-task-related stimuli increased the robot's warmth and competence.

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The art of designing robot faces

Cited by 74 publications

References 6 publications

Designing the mobile robot Kevin for a life science laboratory

Designing the mobile robot Kevin for a life science laboratory

Emotion Model Implementation for Parameterized Facial Animation in Human-Robot-Interaction

Do You Want to Make Your Robot Warmer? Make it More Reactive!

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