Robust Non-Verbal Expression in Humanoid Robots: New Methods for Augmenting Expressive Movements with Sound
Résumé
The aim of the SONAO project is to establish new methods based on sonification of expressive movements for achieving a robust interaction between users and humanoid robots. We want to achieve this by combining competences of the research team members in the fields of social robotics, sound and music computing, affective computing, and body motion analysis. We want to engineer sound models for implementing effective mappings between stylized body movements and sound parameters that will enable an agent to express high-level body motion qualities through sound. These mappings are paramount for supporting feedback to and understanding robot body motion. The project will result in the development of new theories, guidelines, models, and tools for the sonic representation of high-level body motion qualities in interactive applications. This work is part of the growing research field known as data sonification, in which we combine methods and knowledge from the fields of interactive sonification, embodied cognition, multisensory perception, non-verbal and gestural communication in robots.
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