PRE2020 3 Group12

Robot Appearance

Group Members

Name	Student ID
Bart Bronsgeest	1370871
Mihail Tifrea	1317415
Marco Pleket	1295713
Robert Scholman	1317989
Jeroen Sies	0947953

Relevance of robot appearance

In social context, robots may be subject to judgement from humans based on their appearance [Avoiding the uncanny valley: robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion]. The perceived intelligence of the robot is correlated to the attractiveness of the robot since it is the case that humans make a ‘mental model’ of the robot during social interaction and adjust their expectations accordingly: “If the appearance and the behavior of the robot are more advanced than the true state of the robot, hen people will tend to judge the robot as dishonest as the (social) signals being emitted by the robot, and unconsciously assessed by humans, will be misleading. On the other hand, if the appearance and behavior of the robot are unconsciously signaling that the robot is less attentive, socially or physically capable than it actually is, hen humans may misunderstand or not take advantage of the robot to its full abilities.” It is thus very important to predict and attribute the correct level of attractiveness depending on the intellectual capabilities of a robot. Not only that, but humans attribute different levels of trust and satisfaction when dealing with robots, depending on how much they like it [A Cross-cultural Study: Effect of Robot Appearance and TaskDingjun Li·P. L . P a t r i c k R a u·Ye L i]. Furthermore, an anthropomorphic robot is said to be better when high sociability tasks are required [Lohse M et al (2007) What can I do for you? Appearance and application of robots. In: Artificial intelligence and simulation of behaviour], which is a statement that does not lack controversy as some research argues otherwise [A Cross-cultural Study: Effect of Robot Appearance and TaskDingjun Li·P. L . P a t r i c k R a u·Ye L i].

Papers and summaries

The papers that were read and summarized fit into three categories, namely: remote physical therapy, robot appearance, and robot physics. Below are the three categories together with their respective papers for each team member:

1. Remote physical therapy

Mihail Tifrea

Mishra, A.K., Skubic, M., & Abbott, C. (2015). Development and preliminary validation of an interactive remote physical therapy system. 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 190-193.

2. Robot appearance

Bart Bronsgeest

Bartneck, C. et al. (2009). My Robotic Doppelgänger - A Critical Look at the Uncanny Valley

Abubshait, A. & Wiese, E. (2017). You Look Human, But Act Like a Machine: Agent Appearance and Behavior Modulate Different Aspects of Human–Robot Interaction.

Breazeal, C. & Scassellatie, B. (2002). Robots That Imitate Humans.

Pantic, M. et al. (2007). Human Computing and Machine Understanding of Human Behavior: A Survey.

Adams, B. et al. (2000). Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool.

Jeroen Sies

Bar-Cohen, Y., & Breazeal, C., (2003). Biologically inspired intelligent robots.

Hashimoto, M., & Yokogawa, C., (2006). Development and Control of a Face Robot Imitating Human Muscular Structures

Nakazawa, A., & Nakaoka, S., & Ikeuchi, K., & Yokoi, K., (2002). Imitating Human Dance Motions through Motion Structure Analysis

Doering, M., & Glas, D., & Ishiguro, H., (2019). Modeling Interaction Structure for Robot Imitation Learning of Human Social Behavior

Siegel, M., & Breazeal, C., & Norton, M., (2009). Persuasive Robots: The Influence of Robot Gender on Human Behavior

Goetz, J., & Kiesler, S., & Powers, A., (2003). Matching Robot Appearance and Behavior to Tasks to Improve Human-Robot Cooperation

3. Robot physics

Mihail Tifrea

R. Van Ham, B. Vanderborght, M. Van Damme, B. Verrelst and D. Lefeber (2006). "MACCEPA: the mechanically adjustable compliance and controllable equilibrium position actuator for 'controlled passive walking'