| Title | Playing a different imitation game: Interaction with an Empathic Android Robot |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | Hegel, F., T. Spexard, T. Vogt, G. Horstmann, and B. Wrede |
| Conference Name | Proc. 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids´06) |
| Conference Start Date | December |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Conference Location | Genova, Italy |
| Abstract | Abstract: Current research has identified the need to equip robots
with perceptual capabilities that not only recognise objective entities
such as visual or auditory objects but that are also capable of assessing
the affective evaluations of the human communication partner in order
to render the communication situation more natural and social. In
equivalence to Watzlawick's statement that "cone cannot not communicate"
[1] it has been found that also in human-robot interactions one cannot
be not emotional. It is therefore crucial for a robot to understand
these affective signals of its communication partner and react towards
them. However, up to now, online emotion recognition in realtime,
interactive systems has scarcely been attempted as apparently demands
concerning robustness and time constraints are very high. In this
paper we present an empathic anthropomorphic robot (torso) that mirrors
the emotions happiness, fear and neutral as recognised from the speech
signal by facial expressions. The recognition component as well as
the development of the facial expression generation are described
in detail. We report on results from experiments with humans interacting
with the empathic robot. |
| URL | files/papers/Hegel2006-PDI.pdf |
