Title :
Children recognize emotions of EmI companion robot
Author :
Saint-Aimé, Sébastien ; Le Pévédic, Brigitte ; Duhaut, Dominique
Author_Institution :
VALORIA Comput. Sci. Lab., Univ. of Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France
Abstract :
This article presents the evaluation of the emotional expressiveness of EmI companion robot in the EmotiRob project. We describe iGrace emotional computational model of emotion to generate an emotional response based on the speech of the interlocutor, the mechanical design and implementation of EmI, and experimentation to evaluate the expressiveness of EmI with 52 school children aged 7 to 9 years.
Keywords :
emotion recognition; intelligent robots; mobile robots; speech recognition; EmI companion robot; EmotiRob project; children emotions recognition; emotional expressiveness; iGrace emotional computational model; mechanical design; speech-based emotional response; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Emotion recognition; Face; Robot kinematics;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Karon Beach, Phuket
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2136-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181443
