Mentality Expression in Affinity Pleasure-Arousal Space using Ocular and Eyelid Motion of Eye Robot

Abstract

Mentality expression system by eye robot on affinity pleasure-arousal space is proposed for the communication between human beings and robots, where mentality status is calculated by fuzzy inference for speech understanding module. The constructed eye robot system expresses mentality by comprehensible moving, and realizes an interface for new type of cozy information terminal. Experiments of mentality expression with two scenarios are done. Since the result of questionnaire shows that evaluation value is 3.6 out of 5.0, the proposed system is suitable for communication architecture between interlocutor and robot. The system provides a basic interface for mascot robot which is easily understandable information terminal at home environment in ubiquitous society.