Allocentric emotional affordances in HRI

The concept of affordance perception is one of the distinctive traits of human cognition; and its application to robots can dramatically improve the quality of human-robot interaction (HRI). In this paper we explore and discuss the idea of "emotional affordances" by proposing a viable mode...

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Autores: Vallverdú, Jordi|||0000-0001-9975-7780, Trovato, Gabriele|||0000-0003-2675-0216, Jamone, Lorenzo|||0000-0002-1521-6168
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:216908
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/216908
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/mti2040078
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Affordance
Empathy
HRI
Emotion
Multimodal
Allocentric
Libraries
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Sumario:The concept of affordance perception is one of the distinctive traits of human cognition; and its application to robots can dramatically improve the quality of human-robot interaction (HRI). In this paper we explore and discuss the idea of "emotional affordances" by proposing a viable model for implementation into HRI; which considers allocentric and multimodal perception. We consider "2-ways" affordances: perceived object triggering an emotion; and perceived human emotion expression triggering an action. In order to make the implementation generic; the proposed model includes a library that can be customised depending on the specific robot and application scenario. We present the AAA (Affordance-Appraisal-Arousal) model; which incorporates Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions; and we outline some numerical examples of how it can be used in different scenarios.