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Influence of Emotional Motions in Human-Robot Interactions

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2016 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2016)

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The purpose of this study is to establish if emotional motions are important for the human perception of robots using proxemics as a tool. In this Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) experiment, participants were given instructions from a robot that was conveying either a sad, happy or neutral emotion. The emotional motions were generated as a low priority task using the robot Jacobian null-space. Participants were guided by the robot to sit at a desk to fill in a questionnaire and then to approach the robot to a distance that made them feel comfortable. A significant difference was found between the distance taken towards the robot in the Happy and the Sad conditions confirming our hypothesis that emotions conveyed by the robots influence how it is perceived.

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This research is supported by the JSPS Challenging Exploratory Research Grant 15K12124, and partially supported by the Spanish MINECO project DPI2014-57757-R and the Spanish predoctoral grant BES-2012-054899.

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  1. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Magda Dubois & Gentiane Venture

  2. Institute of Industrial and Control Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), BarcelonaTECH, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Josep-Arnau Claret & Luis Basañez

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Dubois, M., Claret, JA., Basañez, L., Venture, G. (2017). Influence of Emotional Motions in Human-Robot Interactions. In: Kulić, D., Nakamura, Y., Khatib, O., Venture, G. (eds) 2016 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. ISER 2016. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50115-4_69

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