Lotus Hanzi Zhang

Is it Happy? Behavioural and Narrative Frame Complexity Impact Perceptions of a Simple Furry Robot’s Emotions

Critical to social human-robot interaction is a robot's emotional richness, expressed within the parameters of its physical display. While emotion arousal is straightforward to convey, human valence (positivity) evaluations are famously ambiguous, whether we are assessing other humans or a robot. Imagine someone breat…