Emotional communication between humans and the autonomous robot which has the emotion model

Author

Ogata, Tetsuya ; Sugano, Shigeki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3177

Abstract

Discusses the communication between autonomous robots and humans through the development of a robot (WAMOEBA-2) which has an emotion model. The model refers to the internal secretion system of humans and it has four kinds of the hormone parameters to use to adjust various internal conditions such as motor output, cooling fan output and sensor gain. We surveyed 126 visitors at ´97 International Robot Exhibition held in Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 1997) in order to evaluate psychological impressions of the robot. As a result, the human friendliness of the robot was confirmed and some factors of the human-robot emotional communication were discovered

Keywords

CCD image sensors; liquid crystal displays; man-machine systems; microphones; mobile robots; tactile sensors; ultrasonic transducers; user interfaces; WAMOEBA-2; autonomous robot; cooling fan output; emotion model; emotional communication; hormone parameters; human friendliness; internal secretion system; motor output; psychological impressions; sensor gain; Communication system control; Electronic mail; Fluids and secretions; Hardware; Humans; Intelligent robots; Machinery; Mechanical engineering; Psychology; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.774082

Filename

774082