2016 PeopleInterpretRoboticNonLingui

• (Read & Belpaeme, 2016) ⇒ Robin Read, and Tony Belpaeme. (2016). “People Interpret Robotic Non-linguistic Utterances Categorically.” In: International Journal of Social Robotics, 8(1). ISBN:1875-4805 doi:10.1007/s12369-015-0304-0

Subject Headings: Non-Linguistic Utterances

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• Non-linguistic Utterances; Social human–robot interaction; Categorical perception; Affective displays; Multi-modal human-robot interaction

Abstract

We present results of an experiment probing whether adults exhibit categorical perception when affectively rating robot-like sounds (Non-linguistic Utterances). The experimental design followed the traditional methodology from the psychology domain for measuring categorical perception: stimulus continua for robot sounds were presented to subjects, who were asked to complete a discrimination and an identification task. In the former subjects were asked to rate whether stimulus pairs were affectively different, while in the latter they were asked to rate single stimuli affectively. The experiment confirms that Non-linguistic Utterances can convey affect and that they are drawn towards prototypical emotions, confirming that people show categorical perception at a level of inferred affective meaning when hearing robot-like sounds. We speculate on how these insights can be used to automatically design and generate affect-laden robot-like utterances.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2016 PeopleInterpretRoboticNonLingui	Robin Read Tony Belpaeme			People Interpret Robotic Non-linguistic Utterances Categorically				10.1007/s12369-015-0304-0		2016