Title
User Affect Elicitation with a Socially Emotional Robot.
Abstract
To effectively communicate with people, social robots must be capable of detecting, interpreting, and responding to human affect during human-robot interactions (HRIs). In order to accurately detect user affect during HRIs, affect elicitation techniques need to be developed to create and train appropriate affect detection models. In this paper, we present such a novel affect elicitation and detection method for social robots in HRIs. Non-verbal emotional behaviors of the social robot were designed to elicit user affect, which was directly measured through electroencephalography (EEG) signals. HRI experiments with both younger and older adults were conducted to evaluate our affect elicitation technique and compare the two types of affect detection models we developed and trained utilizing multilayer perceptron neural networks (NNs) and support vector machines (SVMs). The results showed that; on average, the self-reported valence and arousal were consistent with the intended elicited affect. Furthermore, it was also noted that the EEG data obtained could be used to train affect detection models with the NN models achieving higher classification rates
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/robotics9020044
ROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
human-robot interaction,affective computing,assistive and social robotics
Journal
9
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2.0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingyang Shao100.34
Matt Snyder200.34
Goldie Nejat329328.76
Beno Benhabib424734.76