Expressing Emotions Through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot
Expressing Emotions Through Color, Sound, and Vibration with an Appearance-Constrained Social Robot
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使用外观受限的社交机器人通过颜色、声音和振动表达情感
DOI：
10.1145/2909824.3020239
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2017
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S. Yamada
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作者：
Sichao Song;S. Yamada
许多研究人员现在正致力于研究交互方式，如面部表情、自然语言和手势。这一现象使得机器人与个人之间的交流变得更加自然。然而，目前使用的许多机器人都受外表限制，无法执行面部表情和手势。此外，尽管面向人形的技术前景看好，但它们耗费时间和成本，这导致了大多数研究中的许多技术困难。为了提高交互效率和降低成本，我们交替关注三种交互模式及其组合，即颜色、声音和振动。我们进行了一项结构化研究，以评估这三种模式对人类对我们简单形状的机器人“Maru”的情感感知的影响。我们的发现为人类和机器人之间的情感互动提供了洞察力，这对外表受限的社交机器人特别有用。这项工作的贡献与其说是明确的参数设置，不如说是加深了对如何通过颜色、声音和振动的简单模式来表达情感的理解，同时提供了一套推荐的表达方式，供HRI研究人员和从业者使用。
Many researchers are now dedicating their efforts to studying interactive modalities such as facial expressions, natural language, and gestures. This phenomenon makes communication between robots and individuals become more natural. However, many robots currently in use are appearance constrained and not able to perform facial expressions and gestures. In addition, although humanoid-oriented techniques are promising, they are time and cost consuming, which leads to many technical difficulties in most research studies. To increase interactive efficiency and decrease costs, we alternatively focus on three interaction modalities and their combinations, namely color, sound, and vibration. We conduct a structured study to evaluate the effects of the three modalities on a human's emotional perception towards our simple-shaped robot “Maru.” Our findings offer insights into human-robot affective interactions, which can be particularly useful for appearance-constrained social robots. The contribution of this work is not so much the explicit parameter settings but rather deepening the understanding of how to express emotions through the simple modalities of color, sound, and vibration while providing a set of recommended expressions that HRI researchers and practitioners could readily employ.