It's Food Fight! Introducing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI
This work addresses the problem of creating effective emotional responses in social robots for HRI applications, but it appears incremental as it focuses on scenario design without reporting specific performance gains.
The authors tackled the challenge of designing a human-robot interaction (HRI) scenario to observe and model affective interactions, resulting in the introduction of the Chef's Hat card game as a novel HRI game scenario for developing affective-aware social robots.
Emotional expressions and their changes during an interaction affect heavily how we perceive and behave towards other persons. To design an HRI scenario that makes possible to observe, understand, and model affective interactions and generate the appropriate responses or initiations of a robot is a very challenging task. In this paper, we report our efforts in designing such a scenario, and to propose a modeling strategy of affective interaction by artificial intelligence deployed in autonomous robots. Overall, we present a novel HRI game scenario that was designed to comply with the specific requirements that will allow us to develop the next wave of affective-aware social robots that provide adequate emotional responses.