Facial Features

This study explores how human social response toward the robot can change when we vary the number of the active degrees of freedom in the robot’s head and face area. We investigate this problem by conducting two user studies that situate a person in a dialogue where the puppeteered robot asks personal questions. We compared the robot with varying degrees of freedom in the robot’s neck and face area with the elderly population. The study was conducted in five different senior centers around the Greater Boston Area.

J. K. Lee and C. Breazeal (2010), “Human Social Response toward Humanoid Robot’s Head and Facial Features,” in Work-In-Progress in the Extended Abstract of CHI 2010, April 10-15, 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Lee, H., Ota, Y., Breazeal, C., and Lee, J. K., “Methods of robot behavior generation and robots utilizing the same”, U.S. Patent, 8,751,042, Filed in Dec, 2011, and Issued in Jun, 2014.