The articulated head pays attention

摘要

The Articulated Head (AH) is an artistic installation that consists of a LCD monitor mounted on an industrial robot arm (Fanuc LR Mate 200iC) displaying the head of a virtual human. It was conceived as the next step in the evolution of Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) transcending virtual reality into the physical space shared with the human interlocutor. Recently an attention module has been added as part of a behavioural control system for non-verbal interaction between robot/ECA and human.