Analysis of Human Emotion State in Collaboration with Robot

Abstract:

In order for humans and robots to interact in an effective and instinctive manner, robots must obtain information about the human emotional state in response to the robots actions. This is important as the presence of robot in manufacturing industry is very wide and robot plays a big role in the emerging of automation manufacturing technology. Consequently, we believed that it is necessary to investigate how human feel about this situation and if robot can understand those human emotions, collaboration with human can be much better. In order to investigate the human emotions, we applied a kansei survey method based on a kansei engineering technology. We request a number of participants to take part in our experiment where they will be in the same environment of where a robot is working on some tasks. The participants will answer those questions in the survey based on what they feel about working together with moving robot. The overall goal is, in fact, to predict in which area in the vicinity of the robot that the human is heading to, especially in term of humans feeling, so that by understanding how human feels of working together with robots, perhaps we can create a better working environment. This paper describes the results of our findings about how human feel when collaborating with robot (s).

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 465-466)
• Pages: 682-687
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.465-466.682
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Fairul Azni Jafar*, Nurhidayu Abdullah, Noraidah Blar, M.N. Muhammad, Anuar Mohamed Kassim
• Keywords: Emotion, Human-Robot Interaction, Kansei Robotics

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