TY - GEN
T1 - Emotional states based 3-D fuzzy atmosfield for casual communication between humans and robots
AU - Liu, Zhen Tao
AU - Dong, Fang Yan
AU - Hirota, Kaoru
AU - Wu, Min
AU - Li, Dan Yun
AU - Yamazaki, Yoichi
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Emotional states based three-dimensional (3-D) Fuzzy Atmosfield (FA) is proposed to express the feeling between humans and robots in communication, and is built with 3-D coordinates, i.e."friendly-hostile", lively-calm, and casual-formal axes. The FA aims to be an effective tool to proceed with the communication paying attention to the atmosphere generated by individual emotional state which is calculated from bimodal communication cues namely emotional-speech and emotional-gesture by using weighted fusion and fuzzy inference. A novel emotion recognition approach is presented which consists of two steps, i.e., classification of six basic emotions for initial emotional states in the Affinity-Pleasure-Arousal emotion space, and emotional transition from prior state by using fuzzy logic. Home party enjoying demonstration confirms FA's availability empirically by questionnaires from unrelated persons of authors' group, where smooth communication between four humans and five eye robots is realized in Mascot Robot System.
AB - Emotional states based three-dimensional (3-D) Fuzzy Atmosfield (FA) is proposed to express the feeling between humans and robots in communication, and is built with 3-D coordinates, i.e."friendly-hostile", lively-calm, and casual-formal axes. The FA aims to be an effective tool to proceed with the communication paying attention to the atmosphere generated by individual emotional state which is calculated from bimodal communication cues namely emotional-speech and emotional-gesture by using weighted fusion and fuzzy inference. A novel emotion recognition approach is presented which consists of two steps, i.e., classification of six basic emotions for initial emotional states in the Affinity-Pleasure-Arousal emotion space, and emotional transition from prior state by using fuzzy logic. Home party enjoying demonstration confirms FA's availability empirically by questionnaires from unrelated persons of authors' group, where smooth communication between four humans and five eye robots is realized in Mascot Robot System.
KW - communication atmosphere
KW - emotion recognition
KW - emotional state
KW - fuzzy inference
KW - human-robot communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053059156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007428
DO - 10.1109/FUZZY.2011.6007428
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053059156
SN - 9781424473175
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
SP - 777
EP - 782
BT - FUZZ 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems - Proceedings
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ 2011
Y2 - 27 June 2011 through 30 June 2011
ER -