Effects of Robot Facial Characteristics and Gender in Persuasive Human-Robot Interaction

The Influence of Gender Dimension in Human-Robot Interaction

Regulating Human-Robot Interaction using “emotions”, “drives” and facial expressions

This paper presents a motivational system for an autonomous robot which is designed to regulate humanrobot interaction. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infant dyad where a human acts as the caretaker for the robot. The robot’s motivational system is designed to generate an analogous interaction for a robot-human dyad as for an infantcaretaker dyad. An infant’s emotions and...

Facial expression recognition and tracking for intelligent human-robot interaction

For effective interaction between humans and socially adept, intelligent service robots, a key capability requiredby this class of sociable robots is the successful interpretation of visual data. In addition to crucial techniques like human face detection and recognition, an important next step for enabling intelligence and empathy within social robots is that of emotion recognition. In this pa...

A Facial Expression Imitation System in Human Robot Interaction

In this paper, we propose an interactive system for reconstructing human facial expression. In the system, a nonlinear mass-spring model is employed to simulate twenty two facial muscles’ tensions during facial expressions, and then the elastic forces of these tensions are grouped into a vector which is used as the input for facial expression recognition. The experimental results show that the ...

Human-robot Interaction and Robot Control

This paper describes a robot control architecture with an underlying human-robot interaction (HRI) model. The architecture is supported on an algebraic framework inspired in semiotics principles. The architecture is composed of a set of objects that capture, in the locomotion context, features often present in human-human interactions, namely ambiguity and semantics. The resulting framework dif...