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The illusion of robotic life: principles and practices of animation for robots

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HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 383 - 390

https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157814

Published: 05 March 2012 Publication History

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This paper describes our approach on the development of the expression of emotions on a robot with constrained facial expressions. We adapted principles and practices of animation from Disney^™ and other animators for robots, and applied them on the development of emotional expressions for the EMYS robot. Our work shows that applying animation principles to robots is beneficial for human understanding of the robots' emotions.

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Index Terms

The illusion of robotic life: principles and practices of animation for robots
1. Applied computing
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
  2. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Simulation by animation

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DOI:10.1145/2157689

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