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The paper details a set of experiments to assess the perception of basic behaviors for social robots. These include (i) the blinking of the eyes, (ii) the shape of the mouth, (iii) the way the whole body moves, (iv) the motion of the arms, and (v) a collection of non-verbal sounds. The goals are (i) to validate behaviors that can be useful for social robots with simple anthropomorphic features, and (ii) to explore the perception of the audiences selected to interact with the robot, namely how long do they last and the perceived emotions, i.e., the extent to which small behaviours are perceived by people observing the robot. Online questionnaires containing media displaying a Monarch MBot robot undertaking several actions are used to assess people’s perception. Inequality indicators (Gini Index, pq-means, and Hoyes Index) are used as analysis indicators, in addition to classical statistical tests.
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In the text the robot is named Casper, after the name given by the children at the hospital.
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Five-point scales are used in all questionnaires.
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If two populations have identical wealth distributions, the sparsity of wealth in one population will remain the same when the two are combined [11].
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Credits: https://github.com/koide3/ros2d2.
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The videos used in the questionnaires are available from https://sites.google.com/view/joao-silva-sequeira/exploring-behaviours-for-social-robots.
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Sá, J., Sequeira, J.S. (2024). Exploring Behaviours for Social Robots. In: Youssef, E.S.E., Tokhi, M.O., Silva, M.F., Rincon, L.M. (eds) Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans. CLAWAR 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 811. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47272-5_16
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