Emotional Expressions in Non-Humanoid Robots

Eiji Onchi
Last updated on 2021-06-17 Research
To feel or not to feel

Research Topic

The progress in Artificial Intelligence and technology has introduced robots to many households. Even though these robotic assistants are capable of impressive tasks, only users familiar with their technical aspects are able to fully customize them. For that reason, I want to research how we can express emotions with non-humanoid robots and use that feedback to improve the interaction experience of everyday users.

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Eiji Onchi
Eiji Onchi
Space Production Engineer
PhD. in Kansei Science

Kansei designer and Mechatronic engineer, learning something new everyday.

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By abstracting the core features in human faces for the emotions described by Ekman, et al., a single-eyed 2D avatar was designed that only moves the upper and lower eyelids.
Eiji Onchi, Daniel Saakes, Seung Hee Lee
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Emotional Meaning of Eyelid Positions on a One-Eyed 2D Avatar
Design and Evaluation of a Spherical Robot with Emotion-Like Feedback during Human-Robot Training
A single-eyed spherical robot was developed to study how emotion-like feedback using movement affects the training interaction of non-expert users.
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Design and Evaluation of a Spherical Robot with Emotion-Like Feedback during Human-Robot Training