Given what we found when we asked voice actors to puppet our robots, we wanted to test how the stories people told about our robots impacted their perceptions of the robot’s emotions. Turns out, it was a lot.
Related academic publications
> P. Bucci, L. Zhang, X. L. Cang, and K. E. MacLean, “Is it happy? behavioural and narrative frame complexity impact perceptions of a simple furry robot’s emotions,” in Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, pp. 1–11.