Bringing WALL-E out of the Silver Screen: Understanding How Transformative Robot Sound Affects Human Perception
Brian J. Zhang Nick Stargu Samuel Brimhall Lilian Chan Jason Fick Naomi T. Fitter Brian J. Zhang Nick Stargu Samuel Brimhall Lilian Chan Jason Fick Naomi T. Fitter
Lovable robots in movies regularly beep, chirp, and whirr, yet robots in the real world rarely deploy such sounds. Despite preliminary work supporting the perceptual and objective benefits of intentionally-produced robot sound, relatively little research is ongoing in this area. In this paper, we systematically evaluate transformative robot sound across multiple robot archetypes and behaviors. We ...