Whole body emotion expressions for KOBIAN humanoid robot — preliminary experiments with different Emotional patterns —

Zecca, Massimiliano; Mizoguchi, Y.; Endo, Keita; Iida, Fumiya; Kawabata, Y.; Endo, Nobutsuna; Itoh, Kazuko; Takanishi, Atsuo

doi:10.1109/roman.2009.5326184

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“…The resulting postures are stored in a database and are replayed during interaction. This is the case for, among others, Robovie [95], HRP-2 [96] and Kobian [97]. Since the postures are dependent on the morphology, they cannot be used for other robots with other configurations.…”

Section: Platform Independent Flavourmentioning

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How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Esteban

Baxter

Belpaeme

et al. 2017

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) has successfully been used to improve social skills in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through remote control of the robot in so-called Wizard of Oz (WoZ) paradigms. However, there is a need to increase the autonomy of the robot both to lighten the burden on human therapists (who have to remain in control and, importantly, supervise the robot) and to provide a consistent therapeutic experience. This paper seeks to provide insight into increasing the autonomy level of social robots in therapy to move beyond WoZ. With the final aim of improved human-human social interaction for the children, this multidisciplinary research seeks to facilitate the use of social robots as tools in clinical situations by addressing the challenge of increasing robot autonomy. We introduce the clinical framework in which the developments are tested, alongside initial data obtained from patients in a first phase of the project using a WoZ set-up mimicking the targeted supervised-autonomy behaviour. We further describe the implemented system architecture capable of providing the robot with supervised autonomy.

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How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Esteban

Baxter

Belpaeme

et al. 2017

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

114

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“…Features linked to expressiveness, such as note length, can be perceptually modified with gesture: [16] showed that marimba sounds can be perceived as shorter or longer depending on the percussionist's arm trajectory. Emotionally expressive robots such as Kobian [17] effectively convey emotions using facial features and pose, such as a slouched posture for sadness. By compounding multiple sources of affective information, a music robot may have a better chance at communicating emotional intent to an audience.…”

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Towards expressive musical robots: a cross-modal framework for emotional gesture, voice and music

Lim

Ogata

Okuno

2012

J AUDIO SPEECH MUSIC PROC.

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It has been long speculated that expression of emotions from different modalities have the same underlying 'code', whether it be a dance step, musical phrase, or tone of voice. This is the first attempt to implement this theory across three modalities, inspired by the polyvalence and repeatability of robotics. We propose a unifying framework to generate emotions across voice, gesture, and music, by representing emotional states as a 4-parameter tuple of speed, intensity, regularity, and extent (SIRE). Our results show that a simple 4-tuple can capture four emotions recognizable at greater than chance across gesture and voice, and at least two emotions across all three modalities. An application for multi-modal, expressive music robots is discussed.

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“…Emotions are better recognized when robot's express them by facial expression than by postural expression (Clavel et al, 2009). However, when robots use postural expression and complement these with facial expressions, than the recognition of their emotions increases even further (Zecca et al, 2009). Yet, most research today that employ robots that express emotions in real time interaction are still not fully autonomous, and the researchers use the Wizard-of-Oz technique to study the effects of emotional expressions of the robot in human-robot interactions (e.g., Tielman, Neerincx, Meyer, & Looije, 2014;Wang et al, 2014).…”

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Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

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Whole body emotion expressions for KOBIAN humanoid robot — preliminary experiments with different Emotional patterns —

Cited by 80 publications

References 6 publications

How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Towards expressive musical robots: a cross-modal framework for emotional gesture, voice and music

Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

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