Can an android's posture and movement discriminate against the ambiguous emotion perceived from its facial expressions?

ABSTRACT: Expressing emotions through various modalities is a crucial function not only for humans but also for robots. The mapping method from facial expressions to the basic emotions is widely used in research on robot emotional expressions. This method claims that there are specific facial muscle activation patterns for each emotional expression and people can perceive these emotions by reading these patterns. However, recent research on human behavior reveals that some emotional expressions, such as the emotion "intense", are difficult to judge as positive or negative by just looking at the facial expression alone. Nevertheless, it has not been investigated whether robots can also express ambiguous facial expressions with no clear valence and whether the addition of body expressions can make the

SUBMITTER: Yagi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8354482 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature