Emotions, which are an important component of social interaction, can be studied with the help of android robots and their appearance, which is as similar to humans as possible. The production and customization of android robots is expensive and time-consuming, so it may be practical to use a digital replica. In order to investigate whether there are any perceptual differences in terms of emotions based on the difference in appearance, a robot head was digitally replicated. In an experiment, the basic emotions evaluated in a preliminary study were compared in three conditions and then statistically analyzed. It was found that apart from fear, all emotions were recognized on the real robot head. The digital head with "ideal" emotions performed better than the real head apart from the anger representation, which offers optimization potential for the real head. Contrary to expectations, significant differences between the real and the replicated head with the same emotions could only be found in the representation of surprise.
翻译:情绪作为社会互动的重要组成部分,可通过尽可能类人的安卓机器人及其外观进行研究。由于安卓机器人的生产与定制成本高昂且耗时,使用数字复制品可能更具实用性。为探究外观差异是否带来情绪感知差异,我们数字化复制了一个机器人头部。实验中,将预研究中评估的基本情绪置于三种条件下进行比较,并进行统计分析。结果表明:除恐惧外,真实机器人头部可识别所有情绪;除愤怒表征(为真实头部提供优化潜力)外,采用"理想化"情绪的数字头部表现优于真实头部。与预期相反,真实头部与采用相同情绪的数字复制头部仅在惊讶表征上存在显著差异。