Differential Facial Articulacy in Robots and Humans Elicit Different Levels of Responsiveness, Empathy, and Projected Feelings

Differential Facial Articulacy in Robots and Humans Elicit Different Levels of Responsiveness, Empathy, and Projected Feelings

Life-like humanoid robots are on the rise, aiming at communicative purposes that resemble humanlike conversation. In human social interaction, the facial expression serves important communicative functions. We examined whether a robot’s face is similarly important in human-robot communication. Based...

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Main Authors: Elly A. Konijn, Johan F. Hoorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:Robotics
Subjects:
social robots
facial expression
user response
empathy
human-robot communication
experiment
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/9/4/92

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