The art of designing robot faces

Mike Blow, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Andrew Appleby, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, David Lee
2006 Proceeding of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction - HRI '06  
As robots enter everyday life and start to interact with ordinary people the question of their appearance becomes increasingly important. A user's perception of a robot can be strongly influenced by its facial appearance. Synthesizing relevant ideas from narrative art design, the psychology of face recognition, and recent HRI studies into robot faces, we discuss effects of the uncanny valley and the use of iconicity and its effect on the self/other perceptive divide, as well as abstractness and
more » ... realism, classifying existing designs along these dimensions. The dimensions and issues of face design are illustrated in the design rationale, details of construction and intended uses of a new minimal expressive robot called KASPAR.
doi:10.1145/1121241.1121301 dblp:conf/hri/BlowDANL06 fatcat:bcawpwsw7bh5zaksicjbnlivce