Designing Sociable Robots
Psychological responses to simulated displays of mismatched emotional expressions
Interacting with Computers
Facial behaviour mapping-From video footage to a robot head
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Interpreting Human and Avatar Facial Expressions
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Contextual recognition of robot emotions
TAROS'11 Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference on Towards autonomous robotic systems
Listening to sad music while seeing a happy robot face
ICSR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social Robotics
Real-time speech-driven face animation with expressions using neural networks
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
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Past work on creating robots that can make convincing emotional expressions has concentrated on the quality of those expressions, and on assessing people's ability to recognize them in neutral contexts, without any strong emotional valence. It would be interesting to find out whether observers' judgments of the facial cues of a robot would be affected by a surrounding emotional context. This paper takes its inspiration from the contextual effects found on our interpretation of the expressions on human faces and computer avatars, and looks at the extent to which they also apply to the interpretation of the facial expressions of a mechanical robot head. The kinds of contexts that affect the recognition of robot emotional expressions, the circumstances under which such contextual effects occur, and the relationship between emotions and the surrounding situation, are observed and analyzed. Design implications for believable emotional robots are drawn.