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Evaluating robot facial expressions

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This paper outlines a demonstration of the work carried out in the SoCoRo project investigating how far a neuro-typical population recognises facial expressions on a non-naturalistic robot face that are designed to show approval and disapproval. RFID-tagged objects are presented to an Emys robot head (called Alyx) and Alyx reacts to each with a facial expression. Participants are asked to put the object in a box marked 'Like' or 'Dislike'. This study is being extended to include assessment of participants' Autism Quotient using a validated questionnaire as a step towards using a robot to help train high-functioning adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in social signal recognition.

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        ICMI '17: Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
        November 2017
        676 pages
        ISBN:9781450355438
        DOI:10.1145/3136755

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        • Published: 3 November 2017

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