Designing naturalistic robot motion is tough. We found that using our voices to make a robot move gave us some delightful expressions. But when we tested the system with voice actors, we were surprised to see how engaged and emotional they were.
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> P. Bucci, X. L. Cang, A. Valair, D. Marino, L. Tseng, M. Jung, J. Rantala, O. S. Schneider, and K. E. MacLean, “Sketching cuddlebits: Coupled prototyping of body and behaviour for an affective robot pet,” in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 2017, pp. 3681–3692.
> D. Marino, P. Bucci, O. S. Schneider, and K. E. MacLean, “Voodle: Vocal doodling to sketch affective robot motion,” in Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM, 2017, pp. 753–765.