Affective Body Language of Humanoid Robots: Perception and Effects in Human Robot Interaction

Mood contagion of robot body language in human robot interaction

The aim of our work is to design bodily mood expressions of humanoid robots for interactive settings that can be recognized by users and have (positive) effects on people who interact with the robots. To this end, we develop a parameterized behavior model for humanoid robots to express mood through body language. Different settings of the...

Beo Rhythm - Physically engaged audio product

The graduation project of Filippo Koch covers the student’s seven-month of collaboration with Bang & Olufsen focusing on proposing alterative way of interacting with audio systems. The thesis explores the current mood color based selction system implemented in the BeoSound Moment and propose a design exploration about it. The overall intention...

Color preferences for different topics in connection to personal characteristics

Studies on color preferences are dependent on the topic and the relationships with personal characteristics, particularly personality, but these are seldom studied in one population. Therefore a questionnaire was collected from 1095 Dutch people asking for color preferences about different topics and relating them to personal characteristics.<br...

Supporting Collaboration in Global Software Engineering

More and more, software engineering projects are no longer carried out in a single office building, but instead in multiple dislocated office buildings or even from home. When the development process is distributed between several geographically dispersed locations this is known as Global Software Engineering or GSE. The team members working on...

Robot Mood is Contagious: Effects of Robot Body Language in the Imitation Game

Mood contagion is an automatic mechanism that induces a congruent mood state by means of the observation of another person's emotional expression. In this paper, we address the question whether robot mood displayed during an imitation game can (a) be recognized by participants and (b) produce contagion effects. Robot mood was displayed by...

Moody Closet

This paper introduces Moody Closet, a mobile application for the management of a personal wardrobe with a personalized outfit recommender. To provide incentive for the users to add content and express their preferences, the system provides an easy and enjoyable interaction, which delivers new perspectives on their closets. In particular, we...

Mood expression by seniors in digital communication: Evaluative comparison of four mood-reporting instruments with elderly users

Elderly users have widely adopted digital communication. Digital communication is often text-only, e.g. instant messaging (IM) and e-mail. Text-only communication has been found less effective than communication that uses richer channels such as audio and video. Mood expression instruments, such as emoticons, are used to increase the...

Pick-a-mood; development and application of a pictorial mood-reporting instrument

This paper presents ‘Pick-A-Mood’ (PAM), a cartoon-based pictorial instrument for reporting and expressing moods. The use of cartoon characters enables people to unambiguously and visually express or report their mood in a rich and easy-to-use way. PAM consists of three characters that each express eight different mood states, representing four...

The design of a comprehensive and intuitive POS system for improving contextual use, communication and dining experiences in Asian restaurants

A “POS” is an abbreviation of “Point-of-Sale”, meaning the location where a transaction occurs, usually in the form of a checkout terminal or cash-register. They come in different forms ranging from old-fashion electronic cash registers to the more modern terminals complete with touch screen and Graphic User Interface. POS software is most...

Improving the mood of elderly with coloured lighting

The ACE project aims at developing an adaptive ambience creation platform which can improve the well-being of elderly people in care centers. The system will contain a sensing platform, which measures and analyses the context in a room and an ambience creation platform, which creates ambiences with proven effectiveness for improving the mood of...

Een lichtatmosfeer tool voor deejays (A light atmosphere tool for deejays)

Deejays, video jockeys and light jockeys are responsible for creating a coherent show during a party where lights, visuals and music compliment each other. In small clubs and parties however there are usually no video jockeys and light jockeys present. Deejays play their records and a small computer, called a light controller, controls the...

Moodra: Between time and pleasure

This report presents a thesis in the Design for Interaction program at the University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. The project is conducted in collaboration with Namahn, a human-centered design consultancy located in Brussels, Belgium. The subject of this master thesis is to design a digital future oriented product concept —...

Do moods affect programmers’ debug performance?

There is much research that shows people’s mood can affect their activities. This paper argues that this also applies to programmers, especially their debugging. Literature-based framework is presented linking programming with various cognitive activities as well as linking cognitive activities with moods. Further, the effect of mood on...

Communication in Goal Oriented Agents

In this thesis the agent programming language GOAL is extended with communication. For GOAL we pur- sue an implementation that has a well-founded theory as well as providing pragmatic programming constructs for the programmer. Existing technologies are reviewed to explore their approaches. Many of these technolo- gies have Speech-act theory as...