動きから感情へ：ロボット群れで基本感情を表現できるか
From Motions to Emotions: Can the Fundamental Emotions be Expressed in a Robot Swarm?
小型移動ロボットの群れ行動に社会心理学の感情と結びつく動き・形状特徴を組み込み、アンケートで各行動が意図した基本感情として認識されるかを検証した。
著者: María Santos, Magnus Egerstedt
分類: cs.RO, cs.MA
原文アブストラクト
This paper explores the expressive capabilities of a swarm of miniature mobile robots within the context of inter-robot interactions and their mapping to the so-called fundamental emotions. In particular, we investigate how motion and shape descriptors that are psychologically associated with different emotions can be incorporated into different swarm behaviors for the purpose of artistic expositions. Based on these characterizations from social psychology, a set of swarm behaviors is created, where each behavior corresponds to a fundamental emotion. The effectiveness of these behaviors is evaluated in a survey in which the participants are asked to associate different swarm behaviors with the fundamental emotions. The results of the survey show that most of the research participants assigned to each video the emotion intended to be portrayed by design. These results confirm that abstract descriptors associated with the different fundamental emotions in social psychology provide useful motion characterizations that can be effectively transformed into expressive behaviors for a swarm of simple ground mobile robots.
