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Design and Development of Dew: An Emotional Social-Interactive Robot

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)

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There is a growing concern of depression and anxiety issues among children. While parents interpreting their quietness as shyness, depression and anxiety are directly experienced by these children. In this paper, we present the design of a social interactive robot, Dew, which is specially designed for these group of people. The design philosophy of Dew is presented with concept design, hardware and software specifications. With an expressive emotional design for its human-robot interaction, Dew is envisioned to approach these group of young people emotionally, and is expected to smoothen their emotions.

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This work is supported by Defence Innovative Research Programme (DIRP), the Ministry of Defence, Singapore under grant R-263-000-B08-592 and the A*STAR Industrial Robotics Program of Singapore under grant R-261-506-007-305.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117575, Singapore

    Yiping Xia

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore

    Chen Wang & Shuzhi Sam Ge

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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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Xia, Y., Wang, C., Ge, S.S. (2016). Design and Development of Dew: An Emotional Social-Interactive Robot. 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_61

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