Communication based on Frankl's psychology for humanoid robot partners using emotional model

Abstract

This paper discusses a robot partner system for natural communication using emotional models. In our daily life, robot partners should have an emotional model in order to co-exist and to realize natural communication with people. In this paper, we propose several emotional models for human-robot interaction based on computational intelligence. First we discuss the importance of emotion and its functions in the social interaction. Next, we propose an emotional model based on emotion, feeling, and mood. Furthermore, we use the emotional model as a method for communication system, and also, we discuss Frankl's psychology as the basis of communication. Finally, we show several experimental results of the proposed method, and discuss the utterance systems for a robot partner.