| Título: | An Empiric Evaluation of a Real-Time Robot Dancing Framework based on Multi-Modal Events |
| Autores: |
Oliveira, João Lobato; Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (LIACC); Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP); Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Science and Technology (INESC TEC) Reis, Luis Paulo; University of Minho, School of Engineering –DSI; Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (LIACC) Faria, Brigida Monica; School of Allied Health Sciences of Porto – Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ESTSP-IPP); Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro (UA) Gouyon, Fabien; Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Science and Technology (INESC TEC) |
| Fecha: | 2012-12-01 |
| Publicador: | TELKOMNIKA: Indonesian journal of electrical engineering |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
| Tema: | Robotics; Robot dancing; Human-robot interaction; Edutainment robotics |
| Descripción: | Musical robots have already inspired the creation of worldwide robotic dancing contests, as RoboCup-Junior's Dance, where school teams, formed by children aged eight to eighteen, put their robots in action, performing dance to music in a display that emphasizes creativity of costumes and movement. This paper describes and assesses a framework for robot dancing edutainment applications. The proposed architecture enables the definition of choreographic compositions, which result on a conjunction of reactive dancing motions in real-time response to multi-modal inputs. These inputs are shaped by three rhythmic events (representing soft, medium, and strong musical note-onsets), different dance floor colors, and the awareness of the surrounding obstacles. This layout was applied to a Lego-NXT humanoid robot, built with two Lego-NXT kits, and running on a hand-made dance stage. We report on an empirical evaluation over the overall robot dancing performance made to a group of students after a set of live demonstrations. This evaluation validated the framework's potential application in edutainment and its ability to sustain the interest of the general audience by offering a reasonable compromise between musical-synchrony, animacy and dance performance’s variability. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |