Laban-based motion rendering for emotional expression of human form robots

Abstract

A method modifying arbitrary movement of human form robot (HFR) on the basis of previous work for adding target emotion was developed. The additional emotions are pleasure, anger, sadness or relaxation. This method not only keeps the user interested, but it also makes the user perceive the robot's emotions and form an attachment to the robot more easily. An experiment was conducted using an HFR to test how well our system adds emotion to arbitrary movements. Three basic movements were prepared. Because our aim is to add emotion to an arbitrary movement, the three basic movements were designed to give different impressions. The average of the success rates for adding the target emotion was over 80%. This suggests that our method succeeded in adding the target emotions to arbitrary movements. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.