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Abstract

This paper reports on the results of a long-term experiment in which a social robot's facial expressions were changed to reflect different moods. While the facial changes in each condition were not extremely different, they still altered how people interacted with the robot. On days when many visitors were present, average interactions with the robot were longer when the robot displayed either a "happy" or a "sad" expression instead of a neutral face, but the opposite was true for low-visitor days. The implications of these findings for human-robot social interaction are discussed.

Keywords

Human-robot interaction, social robots, psychology, emotions, moods, affective modeling

Notes

Sponsor: NSF

Grant ID: IIS-0329014, IIS-0121426

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center and Quality of Life Technology Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and Human-Robot Interaction Group

Associated Project(s): Roboceptionist and Social Robots

Number of pages: 8

Text Reference

Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons, "Interactions with a Moody Robot," Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, Utah, March, 2006, pp. 186-193.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Kirby_2006_5367,
   author = "Rachel Kirby and Jodi Forlizzi and Reid Simmons",
   title = "Interactions with a Moody Robot",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, Utah",
   pages = "186-193",
   month = "March",
   year = "2006",
}

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