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Infinite Personality Space for Non-fungible Robots

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We outline a novel method for defining robot personality for the purposes of individual differentiation. Rather than a designer-developed set of behaviors where a users’ preferences are learned and inserted into pre-written scripts, our approach allows for each robot to have and express a unique personality. This uniqueness reduces the fungibility of the robots, which may lead to increased user engagement.

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Notes

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    “Pepper, the emotional robot, learns how to feel like an American” Wired, 6/7/16.

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    An open question is how different two personalitites must be in order to be perceived as different by humans, we leave this for future work.

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Acknowledements

Many thanks to Michael Gielniak for writing the simlutator and running studies, and to Dave Hygh, Quentin Michelet, and Patrick Martin for making the robots and keeping them running.

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  1. Sphero, Inc., 4772 Walnut St, Suite 206, Boulder, Colorado, 80301, USA

    Daniel H. Grollman

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

    Arvin Agah

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ayanna M. Howard

  4. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III de Madrid, madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  5. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Grollman, D.H. (2016). Infinite Personality Space for Non-fungible Robots. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_10

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