The designing of robot’s behavior forms and gesture styles

- the basic study for “PaPeRo”-

Abstract

“PaPeRo” is the personal robot developed by NEC corporation. Through the view poin of man and robot interface, robot’s behavior forms and gesture styles were discussed and designed for PaPeRo. Animated cartoons and Comic books include many kind of technique of deformation and emphasis to draw behavior forms and gestures. 5 types of behavior forms and gesture styles -“joy”, “anger”, “sorrow”, “fear” and “surprise”- was designed for PaPeRo based on these techniques. These technique can be applid to design PaPeRo’s behavior forms and gesture clearly.