Promoting Theatre Methodology for Expressive Robot Movement and Behavior

Abstract

Theatre Arts has been and continues to be an expressive artform engaging humans in deeply emotional and meaningful human behavior through performance. As robots are performative artefacts for humans, the appropriation of theatre methodology from a human-human model to a human-robot model elucidates emerging theatrical techniques and tools for articulating authentic human-like behavior for robot and human interactions. The primary theatrical design structure for the transformation of the human to robot model is realized through body movement interacting with speech methodologies and applied theory.