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Functional and Non-functional Expressive Dimensions: Classification of the Expressiveness of Humanoid Robots

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)

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In Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), an important quantity of work has been done to investigate the reaction of people toward expressive robots. However, the large variability of available expression modalities (e.g., gaze, gestures, speech modulation) can make comparison between results difficult. We believe that developing a common taxonomy to describe these modalities would contribute to the standardization of HRI experiments. This paper proposes the first version of a classification system based on an analysis of humanoid robots commonly seen and used in HRI studies. Features from the face of robots are discussed in terms of functional and non-functional dimensions, and a short-hand notation is developed to describe these features.

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This work has been partially funded by EU Horizon2020 ENRICHME project grant agreement no. 643691C.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

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  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  5. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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Ferland, F., Tapus, A. (2016). Functional and Non-functional Expressive Dimensions: Classification of the Expressiveness of Humanoid Robots. 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_35

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