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Emotion-Mapped Robotic Facial Expressions Based On Philosophical Theories Of Vagueness, Phil Serchuk, Ehud Sharlin, Martin Lukac, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

As the field of robotics matures robots will need some method of displaying and modeling emotions. One way of doing this is to use a human-like face on which the robot can make facial expressions corresponding to its emotional state. Yet the connection between a robot s emotional state and its physical facial expression is not an obvious one: while a smile can gradually increase or decrease in size, there is no principled method of using boolean logic to map changes in facial expressions to changes in emotional states. We give a philosophical analysis of the problem and show that …