Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno

Bob Rinse Schadenberg; Dirk K.J. Heylen; Vanessa  Evers

Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno

Bob Rinse Schadenberg, Dirk K.J. Heylen, Vanessa Evers

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When a robot is used in an intervention for autistic children to learn emotional skills, it is particularly important that the robot's facial expressions of emotion are well recognised. However, recognising what emotion a robot is expressing, based solely on the robot's facial expressions, can be difficult. To improve the recognition rates, we added affect bursts to a set of caricatured and more humanlike facial expressions, using Robokind's R25 Zeno robot. Twenty-eight typically developing children participated in this study. We found no significant difference between the two sets of facial expressions. However, the addition of affect bursts significantly improved the recognition rates of the emotions by helping constrain the meaning of facial expression.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society
Editors	Christiana Tsiourti, Sten Hanke, Luis Santos
Publisher	CEUR
Pages	30-39
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots 2017 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 28 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017

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Conference	Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots 2017
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	28/08/17 → 1/09/17

Keywords

Affect bursts
Social robots
Facial expressions
Emotion recognition

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Schadenberg, B. R., Heylen, D. K. J., & Evers, V. (2018). Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. In C. Tsiourti, S. Hanke, & L. Santos (Eds.), Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society (pp. 30-39). CEUR. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2059/paper4.pdf

Schadenberg, Bob Rinse ; Heylen, Dirk K.J. ; Evers, Vanessa . / Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society. editor / Christiana Tsiourti ; Sten Hanke ; Luis Santos. CEUR, 2018. pp. 30-39

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Schadenberg, BR , Heylen, DKJ & Evers, V 2018, Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. in C Tsiourti, S Hanke & L Santos (eds), Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society. CEUR, pp. 30-39, Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 28/08/17. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2059/paper4.pdf>

Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. / Schadenberg, Bob Rinse ; Heylen, Dirk K.J.; Evers, Vanessa .
Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society. ed. / Christiana Tsiourti; Sten Hanke; Luis Santos. CEUR, 2018. p. 30-39.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Schadenberg BR , Heylen DKJ , Evers V. Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. In Tsiourti C, Hanke S, Santos L, editors, Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society. CEUR. 2018. p. 30-39

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