人與機器人互動研究之表情機器人平台

An Expressive Robot Platform for Studying Human-Robot Interaction

吳郁君(Yu-Chun Wu)

指導教授 ： 王傑智

國立臺灣大學/電機資訊學院/資訊工程學研究所/碩士(2010年)

https://doi.org/10.6342/NTU.2010.01831

摘要

為了研究符合社會規範的機器人行為，我們設計打造出能夠呈現不同情緒表情的機器人NTU-PAL2。在機器人由早期的工業用途到逐漸進入人類日常生活的過程中，此一機器人提供了我們適宜的實驗平台來找尋設計機器人的準則。
情緒的表現常被採用於社交機器人的設計，而這些表現應當符合人們所習慣熟知的社會規範，以期提供自然且易被使用者接受的人機互動。在個體的社會化過程中，學習因應不同的情境來做適當的情緒調適是一重要課題。機器人的此種情緒調適在設計時應被列入考慮，以幫助機器人表現出社會化的人類行為。
在本篇論文中，我們將詳細介紹表情機器人平台NTU-PAL2並且利用此平台進行實驗。藉由該實驗，我們試圖了解在不同情境中使用者對機器人情緒表現的接受度以及加入情緒調適機制所帶來的影響。

關鍵字

機器人平台 ； 人與機器人互動 ； 情緒調適

並列摘要

With an attempt to build a robot platform suitable for studying robot behaviors that accord to prevailing social manners, we have brought into existence the NTU-PAL2, a robot capable of performing emotional expressions. This robot affords a demonstration platform and presents us an opening to further experiments on the course of learning principles of design robots migrating from industrial felds into people's everyday life.
Emotional behaviors are commonly adopted in the design of social robots. In the hope to provide interactions that are natural and of high level of acceptance between human and robot, such behaviors should follow social manners which people are already accustomed to. Learning proper emotion regulation according to different social context is important in an individual's socialization. In designing robots, such regulation should also be taken into account so as to help robots behave more human-like and therefore more socially competent.
In this thesis, we give an introduction to our robot platform NTU-PAL2, which is capable of performing emotional expressions. By using this robot in our experiment, we investigate user acceptance of robot's emotional behaviors in different social environments and the effect of introducing emotion regulation in robot's expressing of emotions.

並列關鍵字

emotion robot ； human-robot interaction ； emotion regulation

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