3 accepted papers
Social robots for children have focused mainly on conventional education domains such as teaching language, science, and math, while applications focusing on the enhancement of cultural competency are quite scarce. In this paper, we present a prototype of a robot-mediation framework for cross-cultur…
Conveying a robot's target mood is crucial to successful social interactions. The robot's expressive performance must be appropriate, persuasive, and consistent. However, this is challenging when interactions contain a mixture of scripted and improvised content, such as those generated by language m…
Defining a robot's expressivity is a difficult task that requires thoughtful consideration of the potential of various robot modalities and a model of communication that humans understand. Humanoid and zoomorphic-designed robots can easily take cues from human and animals, respectively when designin…