Abstract
This research explores the use of facial expressions in robots and their effect in collaborative tasks between humans and robots. The positive effect is determined during a task in human - robot collaboration, derived from a negative facial expression issued as feedback by the robot (sad face) when a failure in the execution of the task occurs. This study analyzes whether or not human intervention exists on the initial presence of an unexpected failure, the response time of the intervention and the accuracy of the task. A comparison with a neutral facial expression is also performed.
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Statistical significance calculated by Exact Fisher method for an experiment with a power of 0.9 for a sample of 15 per case.
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Statistical significance calculated by Pair t-test method for an experiment with a power of 0.9 for a sample of 15 per case.
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This research was financed by PCIC-UNAM, PASPA program and by CONACyT project 178673, PAPIIT-UNAM project IN107513 and CIDI, UNAM.
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Reyes, M., Meza, I., Pineda, L.A. (2016). The Positive Effect of Negative Feedback in HRI Using a Facial Expression Robot. In: Koh, J., Dunstan, B., Silvera-Tawil, D., Velonaki, M. (eds) Cultural Robotics. CR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9549. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42945-8_4
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