1P1-E08 Evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction method based on emotional synchronization

Abstract

In communications between human beings, it has been found that happy facial expressions are promoted and anger and sadness expressions are weekend by the partner's reactions with synchronized emotional expressions. Then, we have proposed a human-robot interaction technique based on the emotional synchronization to improve the human emotional state. Also we have developed the proposed interaction system using a facial expression robot KAMIN. In this paper, we evaluate the proposed technique by the interaction experiments between human and the robot KAMIN. It was found that the robot reactions with emotional synchronization changed human emotion comfortably.