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Pupil response is closely related to human affects and emotions. Focusing on the pupil response in human- robot interaction, we developed a pupil response interface using hemisphere displays for enhancing affective expression. This interface can generate pupil response like human by speech input and enhance affective expression. In this study, for the basic research of forming an intimate communication between human and pet-robot, we analyzed the pupil response during his or her body contact stroking forearm or head by using a pupil measurement device. Based on the analysis, we developed an advanced pupil response system for enhancing intimacy. This system generates the empathy expression when the talker touches any surface of hemisphere displays. The effectiveness of the system was confirmed experimentally.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP16K01560.
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Sejima, Y., Sato, Y., Watanabe, T. (2020). Development of a Pupil Response System with Empathy Expression in Face-to-Face Body Contact. In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20441-9_11
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