Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study with Children

The work reported in this paper focuses on giving humanoid robots the capacity to express emotions with their body. Previous results show that adults are able to interpret different key poses displayed by a humanoid robot and also that changing the head position affects the expressiveness of the key poses in a consistent way. Moving the head down leads to decreased arousal (the level of energy) and valence (positive or negative emotion) whereas moving the head up produces an increase along these dimensions. Hence, changing the head position during an interaction should send intuitive signals. The study reported in this paper tested children's ability to recognize the emotional body language displayed by a humanoid robot. The results suggest that body postures and head position can be used to convey emotions during child-robot interaction.

Tipo Pubblicazione: 
Articolo
Author or Creator: 
A. Beck
L. Canamero
A. Hiolle
L. Damiano
P. Cosi
F. Tesser
G. Sommavilla
Publisher: 
Springer Netherlands, Dprdrecht , Paesi Bassi
Source: 
International journal of social robotics (Print) 5 (2013): 325–334. doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0193-z
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Date: 
2013
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http://www.cnr.it/prodotto/i/296368
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12369-013-0193-z
info:doi:10.1007/s12369-013-0193-z
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Language: 
Eng
ISTC Author: 
Ritratto di Fabio Tesser
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Ritratto di Piero Cosi
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