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Expressivity for Interactive Robots

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As robots start to leave factories and begin to enter our schools, workplaces, and homes, it is important that people are able to interact with them in a way that is comfortable and natural to them. Eventually this might be via natural language dialogue, but given the complexities of language that may be not be available for a while. In the meantime, another approach is to allow people to communicate with robots using non-verbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions. In addition to ensuring robots are capable of accurately sensing and interpreting human non-verbal cues, it is important humans are able to accurately understand the cues robots make. This talk will describe several psychometric experiments we have conducted using both humanoid and zoomorphic robots which explore various aspects of this problem, including people’s cooperation with, empathy toward, and ability to build rapport with interactive robots.

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