Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions

Ruth Aylett; Frank Broz; Ayan Ghosh; Peter Edward McKenna; Gnanathusharan Rajendran; Mary Ellen Foster; Giorgio Roffo; Alessandro Vinciarelli

doi:10.1145/3136755.3143032

Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions

Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Ayan Ghosh, Peter Edward McKenna, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Ellen Foster, Giorgio Roffo, Alessandro Vinciarelli

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Abstract

This paper outlines a demonstration of the work carried out in the
SoCoRo project investigating how far a neuro-typical population
recognises facial expressions on a non-naturalistic robot face that
are designed to showapproval and disapproval. RFID-tagged objects
are presented to an Emys robot head (called Alyx) and Alyx reacts to
each with a facial expression. Participants are asked to put the object
in a box marked ’Like’ or ’Dislike’. This study is being extended
to include assessment of participants’ Autism Quotient using a
validated questionnaire as a step towards using a robot to help
train high-functioning adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
in social signal recogniton.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	516-517
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5543-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3143032
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2017
Event	19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → 17 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference	19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Abbreviated title	ICMI 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	13/11/17 → 17/11/17

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Aylett, R, Broz, F, Ghosh, A, McKenna, PE , Rajendran, G, Foster, ME, Roffo, G & Vinciarelli, A 2017, Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions. in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 516-517, 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 13/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3143032

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