Communication with Self-Growing Character to Develop Physically Growing Robot Toy Agent

Autor: Mingu Lee, Jiyong Kim, Hyunsu Jeong, Azure Pham, Changhyeon Lee, Pilwoo Lee, Thiha Soe, Seong-Woo Kim, Juhyun Eune
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 923 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app10030923
Popis: Robots for communication are developed extensively with an emphasis on sympathy. This study deals with the growth of character and the control of its operation. The child has time to be alone with the nature of his/her robot friend. That child can interact with other people’s emotional expressions through a robot. Step by step, the robot character will grow as the child grows. Through design studies, qualitative processes such as customer experience audit, eye tracking, mental model diagrams, and semantic differences have been executed for the results. The participatory behavior research approach through user travel is mapped from the user’s lead to the evidence-based design. This research considers how synthetic characteristics can be applied to the physical growth of robot toys through the product design process. With the development of robot toy “Buddy”, two variations on the robot were made to achieve recognizable growth. (1) one-dimensional height scaling and (2) facial expression including the distance between two eyes on the screen. Observations represented children’s reactions when "Buddy" was released with the children. As an independent synthetic character, the robot was recognized by children who had the designed function. Robots for training may require more experimentation.
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