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Sketching CuddleBits
Sketching CuddleBits
- Source :
- CHI, CHI 2017 online proceedings, 3681-3692, STARTPAGE=3681;ENDPAGE=3692;TITLE=CHI 2017 online proceedings
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- ACM, 2017.
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Abstract
- Social robots that physically display emotion invite natural communication with their human interlocutors, enabling ap- plications like robot-assisted therapy where a complex robot’s breathing influences human emotional and physiological state. Using DIY fabrication and assembly, we explore how sim- ple 1-DOF robots can express affect with economy and user customizability, leveraging open-source designs. We developed low-cost techniques for coupled iteration of a simple robot’s body and behaviour, and evaluated its potential to display emotion. Through two user studies, we (1) vali- dated these CuddleBits’ ability to express emotions (N=20); (2) sourced a corpus of 72 robot emotion behaviours from participants (N=10); and (3) analyzed it to link underlying parameters to emotional perception (N=14). We found that CuddleBits can express arousal (activation), and to a lesser degree valence (pleasantness). We also show how a sketch-refine paradigm combined with DIY fabrication and novel input methods enable parametric design of physical emotion display, and discuss how mastering this parsimonious case can give insight into layering simple behaviours in more complex robots.
- Subjects :
- Social robot
Computer science
05 social sciences
Affective computing
050109 social psychology
Affect (psychology)
physical prototyping
Arousal
haptics
Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
Human–computer interaction
Robot
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Valence (psychology)
human-robot interaction (HRI)
050107 human factors
Haptic technology
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Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e002acf7cfd7175a7645f86695cbe17
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025774