Automating Behavior Selection for Affective Telepresence Robot
Yurii Vasylkiv Zhen Ma Guangliang Li Eleanor Sandry Heike Brock Keisuke Nakamura Irani Pourang Randy Gomez Yurii Vasylkiv Zhen Ma Guangliang Li Eleanor Sandry Heike Brock Keisuke Nakamura Irani Pourang Randy Gomez
The tabletop robot Haru, used for affective telepresence research, enables a teleoperator to communicate affects from a distance. The robot’s expressiveness offers myriad ways of communicating affects through the execution of emotive routines. The teleoperator reacts to input modalities such as the user’s facial expression, gestures and speech-based intent as perceived by the robot’s perception sy...