[3Q5-OS-19b] Affective Computing

[3Q5-OS-19b-05] The influence of the industrial robot's emotion expression and verbal explanation on decision making

〇Kazuya Noda¹, Kazunori Terada¹, Celso M. de Melo² (1. Gifu University, 2. DEVCOM U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

Keywords:human-robot interaction, emotion expression, verbal explanation

In recent years, robots and virtual AI agents have been equipped with emotion expression functions and have begun to establish social relationships with humans. However, the significance and effects of incorporating emotions into industrial robots, which have a strong tool-like nature, are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the effects of robot emotion expression on human decision making in a situation where robots assist humans, and how emotion expression interacts with the presentation of information through verbal expression. Participants performed a desert survival task with an arm robot in a laboratory. Participants participated in one of four conditions, which consisted of the presence or absence of emotional expression through the eyes displayed on the LCD and the presence or absence of audio description of the item. In this presentation, we report the results of the experiment.