TY - GEN
T1 - Recognition and expression of emotions by a symbiotic android head
AU - Mazzei, Daniele
AU - Zaraki, Abolfazl
AU - Lazzeri, Nicole
AU - De Rossi, Danilo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/2/12
Y1 - 2015/2/12
N2 - The creation of social empathie communication channels between social robots and humans has started to become reality. Nowadays, the development of empathie and affective agents is giving to scientists another way to explore the social dimension of human beings. In this work, we introduce the FACE humanoid project that aims at creating a social and emotional android. FACE is an android head with an articulated neck mounted on a passive body. In order to enable FACE to perceive and express emotions, two dedicated engines have been developed. A sensory apparatus able to perceive the 'social world', and a facial expressions generation engine that allows the robot to express its synthetic emotions. The system has been also integrated with an attention-based gaze generation component that allows the robot to autonomously follow a conversation between its partners. The developed framework has been implemented and tested in several standard human-robot interaction settings. Results demonstrated the promising social capabilities of the robot to perceive and convey emotions to humans through the generation of emotional perceivable facial expressions and socially aligned behaviour.
AB - The creation of social empathie communication channels between social robots and humans has started to become reality. Nowadays, the development of empathie and affective agents is giving to scientists another way to explore the social dimension of human beings. In this work, we introduce the FACE humanoid project that aims at creating a social and emotional android. FACE is an android head with an articulated neck mounted on a passive body. In order to enable FACE to perceive and express emotions, two dedicated engines have been developed. A sensory apparatus able to perceive the 'social world', and a facial expressions generation engine that allows the robot to express its synthetic emotions. The system has been also integrated with an attention-based gaze generation component that allows the robot to autonomously follow a conversation between its partners. The developed framework has been implemented and tested in several standard human-robot interaction settings. Results demonstrated the promising social capabilities of the robot to perceive and convey emotions to humans through the generation of emotional perceivable facial expressions and socially aligned behaviour.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84945179051&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041349
DO - 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041349
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84945179051
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 134
EP - 139
BT - 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
T2 - 2014 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids 2014
Y2 - 18 November 2014 through 20 November 2014
ER -