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Android Emotions Revealed

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2012)

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This work presents a method for designing facial interfaces for sociable android robots with respect to the fundamental rules of human affect expression. Extending the work of Paul Ekman towards a robotic direction, we follow the judgment-based approach for evaluating facial expressions to test in which case an android robot like the Geminoid|DK –a duplicate of an Original person- reveals emotions convincingly; when following an empirical perspective, or when following a theoretical one. The methodology includes the processes of acquiring the empirical data, and gathering feedback on them. Our findings are based on the results derived from a number of judgments, and suggest that before programming the facial expressions of a Geminoid, the Original should pass through the proposed procedure. According to our recommendations, the facial expressions of an android should be tested by judges, even in cases that no Original is engaged in the android face creation.

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  1. Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Nyhavnsgade 14, DK-9000, Denmark

    Evgenios Vlachos & Henrik Schärfe

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  1. Interactive Digial Media Institute, Social Robotics Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Gates Building, 94305-9010, Stanford, CA, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Reid Simmons

  4. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Human-robot Collaboration Studio, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Vlachos, E., Schärfe, H. (2012). Android Emotions Revealed. In: Ge, S.S., Khatib, O., Cabibihan, JJ., Simmons, R., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_6

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