The interplay of context and emotion for non-anthropomorphic robots

Wiltgen, Bryan; Beer, Jenay M.; McGreggor, Keith; Jiang, Karl; Thomaz, Andrea L.

doi:10.1109/roman.2010.5598669

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“…Thus, we may sadly conclude that they cannot really be happy. This is coherent with the results of (Wiltgen, Beer, McGreggor, Jiang, and Thomaz, 2010), who had to implement the happy expression for Roomba with only sounds and light, and could obtain acceptable recognition rate only by presenting a carefully designed movie to provide a clear context.…”

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Can my robotic home cleaner be happy? Issues about emotional expression in non-bio-inspired robots

Bonarini

2016

Adaptive Behavior

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In many robotic applications a robot body should have a functional shape that cannot include bio-inspired elements, but it would still be important that the robot can express emotions, moods, or a character, to make it acceptable, and to involve its users. Dynamic signals from movement can be exploited to provide this expression, while the robot is acting to perform its task. A research effort has been started to find general emotion expression models for actions that could be applied to any kind of robot to obtain believable and easily detectable emotional expressions. On his path, the need for a unified representation of emotional expression emerged. A framework to define action characteristics that could be used to represent emotions is proposed in this paper. Guidelines are provided to identify quantitative models and numerical values for parameters, which can be used to design and engineer emotional robot actions. A set of robots having different shapes, movement possibilities, and goals have been implemented following these guidelines. Thanks to the proposed framework, different models to implement emotional expression could now be compared in a sound way. The question mentioned in the title can now be answered in a justified way.

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Can my robotic home cleaner be happy? Issues about emotional expression in non-bio-inspired robots

Bonarini

2016

Adaptive Behavior

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“…The existence of robots in physical reality sets them apart from voice-and screen-based agents. Even simple embodiments such as the Roomba [67] and an actuated stick [68] can convey emotions.…”

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At Least, Be Human: Humanizing the Robot as a Medium for Communication

Suguitan

2023

Social Robots in Social Institutions

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This work presents accessibility as a way to humanize social robots while enabling robot-mediated communication for human-human interaction. A central tenet of human-robot interaction research is to humanize robots as collaborators and companions. Literal approaches to humanizing, either through human-like behaviors or humanoid embodiments, pose technological and social challenges that have prevented adoption of robots in everyday contexts. Even if convincingly humanized robots could be achieved, human-robot interaction may enable an escapism that diminishes our capacity for human-human interaction. I propose to avoid these pitfalls by humanizing the robot as a medium for communication through accessibility. Accessibility humanizes technology by making inner workings visible and familiar to human users, promoting understanding of technological processes and imperfections. Accessibility also enables broader demographics of lay users to become involved with robotics, enabling communication through robots, from development processes (e.g. physical and behavioral design) to applications (e.g. telepresence). I use the open-source Blossom social robot as an extended case study of this approach and detail its technical implementations and research deployments.

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