EmotiRob : an expressive compagnion robot for young children

Sébastien Saint-Aimé (1) , Brigitte Le Pévédic (2) , Dominique Duhaut (1)

1 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient
2 RIMH

We will discuss the research in the eld emotional interac- tion, for the EmotiRob project, to maintain an interaction with children from 4 to 8 years. EmotiRob is a component of the MAPH project. The objective of which is to give comfort to vulnerable children and/or those undergoing long-term hospitalisation through the help of an emotional robot companion. The studies carried out on perception and emotional synthesis have allowed us to develop an experiment stu fed robot, Emi, using an emotional model, iGrace, allowing an emotional reaction based on the speech of the user. This short paper presents brie y MAPH and EmotiRob project, how we used emotion for Emi and experimentations with children.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Sébastien Saint-Aimé, Brigitte Le Pévédic, Dominique Duhaut. EmotiRob : an expressive compagnion robot for young children. 5th CRI (Companion Robotics Institute) Workshop AAL User-Centric Companion Robotics Experimentoria,Supporting Socio-ethically Intelligent Assistive Technologies Adoption, Mar 2011, Belgium. ⟨hal-00661754⟩