TY - GEN
T1 - Converting emotional voice to motion for robot telepresence
AU - Lim, Angelica
AU - Ogata, Tetsuya
AU - Okuno, Hiroshi G.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper we present a new method for producing affective motion for humanoid robots. The NAO robot, like other humanoids, does not possess facial features to convey emotion. Instead, our proposed system generates pose-independent robot movement using a description of emotion through speed, intensity, regularity and extent (DESIRE). We show how the DESIRE framework can link the emotional content of voice and gesture, without the need for an emotion recognition system. Our results show that DESIRE movement can be used to effectively convey at least four emotions with user agreement 60-75%, and that voices converted to motion through SIRE maintained the same emotion significantly higher than chance, even across cultures (German to Japanese). Additionally, portrayals recognized as happiness were rated significantly easier to understand with motion over voice alone.
AB - In this paper we present a new method for producing affective motion for humanoid robots. The NAO robot, like other humanoids, does not possess facial features to convey emotion. Instead, our proposed system generates pose-independent robot movement using a description of emotion through speed, intensity, regularity and extent (DESIRE). We show how the DESIRE framework can link the emotional content of voice and gesture, without the need for an emotion recognition system. Our results show that DESIRE movement can be used to effectively convey at least four emotions with user agreement 60-75%, and that voices converted to motion through SIRE maintained the same emotion significantly higher than chance, even across cultures (German to Japanese). Additionally, portrayals recognized as happiness were rated significantly easier to understand with motion over voice alone.
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U2 - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100891
DO - 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100891
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856341339
SN - 9781612848679
T3 - IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
SP - 472
EP - 479
BT - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
T2 - 2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2011
Y2 - 26 October 2011 through 28 October 2011
ER -