Abstract
In order for the robot and human to live together, the flexible understanding ability of human intention is required for the robot. In this research, we aim to realize "interactive Emotion Communication" (IEC) which is a bidirectional communication based on emotional behaviors between human and robot. The purpose of IEC is to raise the personal affinity which the robot gives to the human by interactive emotional behaviors between both of them. IEC consists of three processes: (1) recognizing human emotion, (2) generating robot emotion, and (3) expressing robot emotion. In this research, we mainly developed the process of generating robot emotion. We consider that patterns of emotional behaviors desired to the robot vary from person to person in IEC. In this research, we perform the individual preference analysis for emotional behaviors.
