@inproceedings {2020, title = {Does Expression of Grounded Affect in a Hexapod Robot Elicit More Prosocial Responses?}, booktitle = {UKRAS20 Conference: "Robots into the real world" Proceedings}, year = {2020}, note = {Download (Open Access)}, month = {04/2020}, pages = {40{\textendash}42}, address = {Lincoln, UK}, abstract = {We consider how non-humanoid robots can communicate their affective state via bodily forms of communication, and the extent to which this can influence human response. We propose a simple model of grounded affect and kinesic expression and outline two experiments (N=9 and N=180) in which participants were asked to watch expressive and non-expressive hexapod robots perform different {\textquoteleft}scenes{\textquoteright}. Our preliminary findings suggest the expressive robot stimulated greater desire for interaction, and was more likely to be attributed with emotion. It also elicited more desire for prosocial behaviour.}, doi = {10.31256/Hz3Ww4T}, url = {https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/22817/UKRAS20_paper_09.pdf}, author = {Hickton, Luke and Lewis, Matthew and Kheng Lee Koay and Lola Ca{\~n}amero} } @inproceedings {9998, title = {Expression of Grounded Affect: How Much Emotion Can Arousal Convey?}, booktitle = {Proc. 21st Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS2020)}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {12228}, year = {2020}, note = {Download (the complete proceedings are available from the link on this page)}, month = {09/2020}, pages = {234{\textendash}248}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, address = {Nottingham, UK}, abstract = {In this paper we consider how non-humanoid robots can communicate their affective state via bodily forms of communication (kinesics), and the extent to which this influences how humans respond to them. We propose a simple model of grounded affect and kinesic expression before presenting the qualitative findings of an exploratory study (N=9), during which participants were interviewed after watching expressive and non-expressive hexapod robots perform different {\textquoteleft}scenes{\textquoteright}. A summary of these interviews is presented and a number of emerging themes are identified and discussed. Whilst our findings suggest that the expressive robot did not evoke significantly greater empathy or altruistic intent in humans than the control robot, the expressive robot stimulated greater desire for interaction and was also more likely to be attributed with emotion.}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_26}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-63486-5_26}, author = {Hickton, Luke and Lewis, Matthew and Lola Ca{\~n}amero}, editor = {Abdelkhilick Mohammad and Xin Dong and Matteo Russo} } @inproceedings {2017, title = {A Flexible Component-Based Robot Control Architecture for Hormonal Modulation of Behaviour and Affect}, booktitle = {Proc. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 18th Annual Conference, TAROS 2017}, series = {LNCS}, volume = {10454}, year = {2017}, note = {Download}, month = {07/2017}, pages = {464{\textendash}474}, publisher = {Springer International}, organization = {Springer International}, address = {Guildford, UK}, abstract = {In this paper we present the foundations of an architecture that will support the wider context of our work, which is to explore the link between affect, perception and behaviour from an embodied perspective and assess their relevance to Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Our approach builds upon existing affect-based architectures by combining artificial hormones with discrete abstract components that are designed with the explicit consideration of influencing, and being receptive to, the wider affective state of the robot.}, isbn = {978-3-319-64106-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2_36}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2_36}, author = {Hickton, Luke and Lewis, Matthew and Lola Ca{\~n}amero}, editor = {Gao, Yang and Fallah, Saber and Jin, Yaochu and Lekakou, Constantina} }