Title
Disambiguating Affective Stimulus Associations for Robot Perception and Dialogue
Abstract
Effectively recognising and applying emotions to interactions is a highly desirable trait for social robots. Implicitly understanding how subjects experience different kinds of actions and objects in the world is crucial for natural HRI interactions, with the possibility to perform positive actions and avoid negative actions. In this paper, we utilize the NICO robot's appearance and capabilities to give the NICO the ability to model a coherent affective association between a perceived auditory stimulus and a temporally asynchronous emotion expression. This is done by combining evaluations of emotional valence from vision and language. NICO uses this information to make decisions about when to extend conversations in order to accrue more affective information if the representation of the association is not coherent. Our primary contribution is providing a NICO robot with the ability to learn the affective associations between a perceived auditory stimulus and an emotional expression. NICO is able to do this for both individual subjects and specific stimuli, with the aid of an emotion-driven dialogue system that rectifies emotional expression incoherences. The robot is then able to use this information to determine a subject's enjoyment of perceived auditory stimuli in a real HRI scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625012
2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
Keywords
Field
DocType
NICO robot,affective associations,emotion-driven dialogue system,emotional expression incoherences,perceived auditory stimuli,HRI scenario,robot perception,social robots,natural HRI interactions,coherent affective association,temporally asynchronous emotion expression,emotional valence,affective stimulus association disambiguation,robot dialogue,affective association learning
Asynchronous communication,Social robot,Computer science,Robot perception,Trait,Simulation,Cognitive psychology,Emotional expression,Stimulus (physiology),Robot,Affect (psychology)
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2164-0572
978-1-5386-7284-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Henrique Siqueira123.40
Alexander Sutherland200.34
Pablo V. A. Barros311922.02
Matthias Kerzel4327.67
Sven Magg56713.49
Stefan Wermter61100151.62