Towards An Affective Robot Companion for Audiology Rehabilitation: How Does Pepper Feel Today?

Pinar Uluer, Hatice Kose, Bulent Koray Oz, Turgut Can Aydinalev, Duygun Erol Barkana

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Abstract

The motivation of this work is to develop an affective robot companion for audiology rehabilitation and to test the system with the deaf or hard of hearing children. Two robot modules are developed which are the multimodal stress/emotion/motivation recognition module for the robot to understand how the children feel, and behaviour and feedback module of the robot to show the children how the robot feels. In this study we only focus on the behaviour and feedback module of the robot. The selected affective/affirmative behaviours are tested by means of tablet games and employed on the robot during an audiology test, as a feedback mechanism. Facial data are used together with the surveys to evaluate the children's perception of the robot and the behaviour set.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages567-572
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728160757
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2020
Event29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020 - Virtual, Naples, Italy
Duration: 31 Aug 20204 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020

Conference

Conference29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVirtual, Naples
Period31/08/204/09/20

Bibliographical note

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Keywords

  • affective computing
  • Child-robot interaction
  • humanoids
  • socially assistive robots

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