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Emotions are an important communication channel and therefore, human–machine interaction can be enriched by displaying emotions. Especially for a robotic system designed for technology-inexperienced users as in an AAL context, display of emotions is a good way to increase the familiarity with a technical system. In this contribution, we describe how the robotic head of the robotic platform ALIAS is used to display emotions. In the project ALIAS, the robot is equipped as a communication platform for elderly people. Emotions are used to enrich the human–machine interaction. ALIAS can thus better adapt to its users during a dialogue. The robotic head has several degrees of freedom to display different facial expressions. Five different facial expressions corresponding to five different emotions have been developed. In a user study it was tested, how humans perceive the displayed emotions. The results are promising, however, the absence of a mouth makes it difficult to design emotions which can be recognized by humans very robustly.
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See AAL-JP project ALIAS www.aal-alias.eu.
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This work was supported by the project AAL-2009-2-049 “Adaptable Ambient Living Assistant” (ALIAS) co-funded by the European Commission and the German Federal Ministry of Education (BMBF) in the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme.
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Geiger, J., Yenin, I., Wallhoff, F., Rigoll, G. (2014). Display of Emotions with the Robotic Platform ALIAS. In: Wichert, R., Klausing, H. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_18
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