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SUMMARY:SoRoCAD: A Design Tool for the Building Blocks of Pneumatic Soft Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Soft robotics uses soft\, flexible materials and elastic actuation mechanisms to create systems that are more adaptable and tolerant to unknown environments\, and safer for human-machine interaction\, than rigid robots.\nPneumatic soft robots can be fabricated using more affordable materials compared to traditional robots and make use of technologies such as 3D printing\, making them an attractive choice for research and DIY projects.\nHowever\, their design is still highly unintuitive\, and at up to two days\, design iterations can take prohibitively long: The behavior of\, e.g.\, a pneumatic silicone gripper only becomes apparent after designing and 3D printing its mold\, casting\, curing\, assembling\, and testing it.\nWe introduce SoRoCAD\, a design tool supporting a Maker-friendly soft robotics design and fabrication pipeline that incorporates simulating the final actuation into the design process.
URL:https://www.germanhci.de/event/sorocad-a-design-tool-for-the-building-blocks-of-pneumatic-soft-robotics-2/
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SUMMARY:Using Expressive Avatars to Increase Emotion Recognition: A Pilot Study
DESCRIPTION:Virtual avatars are widely used for collaborating in virtual environments. Yet\, often these avatars lack expressiveness to determine a state of mind. Prior work has demonstrated effective usage of determining emotions and animated lip movement through analyzing mere audio tracks of spoken words. To provide this information on a virtual avatar\, we created a natural audio data set consisting of 17 audio files from which we then extracted the underlying emotion and lip movement. To conduct a pilot study\, we developed a prototypical system that displays the extracted visual parameters and then maps them on a virtual avatar while playing the corresponding audio file. We tested the system with 5 participants in two conditions: (i) while seeing the virtual avatar only an audio file was played and (ii). In addition to the audio file\, the extracted facial visual parameters were displayed on the virtual avatar. Our results suggest the validity of using additional visual parameters in the avatars’ face as it helps to determine emotions. We conclude with a brief discussion on the outcomes and their implications on future work.
URL:https://www.germanhci.de/event/using-expressive-avatars-to-increase-emotion-recognition-a-pilot-study-2/
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SUMMARY:SoRoCAD: A Design Tool for the Building Blocks of Pneumatic Soft Robotics
DESCRIPTION:Soft robotics uses soft\, flexible materials and elastic actuation mechanisms to create systems that are more adaptable and tolerant to unknown environments\, and safer for human-machine interaction\, than rigid robots.\nPneumatic soft robots can be fabricated using more affordable materials compared to traditional robots and make use of technologies such as 3D printing\, making them an attractive choice for research and DIY projects.\nHowever\, their design is still highly unintuitive\, and at up to two days\, design iterations can take prohibitively long: The behavior of\, e.g.\, a pneumatic silicone gripper only becomes apparent after designing and 3D printing its mold\, casting\, curing\, assembling\, and testing it.\nWe introduce SoRoCAD\, a design tool supporting a Maker-friendly soft robotics design and fabrication pipeline that incorporates simulating the final actuation into the design process.
URL:https://www.germanhci.de/event/sorocad-a-design-tool-for-the-building-blocks-of-pneumatic-soft-robotics/
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SUMMARY:Using Expressive Avatars to Increase Emotion Recognition: A Pilot Study
DESCRIPTION:Virtual avatars are widely used for collaborating in virtual environments. Yet\, often these avatars lack expressiveness to determine a state of mind. Prior work has demonstrated effective usage of determining emotions and animated lip movement through analyzing mere audio tracks of spoken words. To provide this information on a virtual avatar\, we created a natural audio data set consisting of 17 audio files from which we then extracted the underlying emotion and lip movement. To conduct a pilot study\, we developed a prototypical system that displays the extracted visual parameters and then maps them on a virtual avatar while playing the corresponding audio file. We tested the system with 5 participants in two conditions: (i) while seeing the virtual avatar only an audio file was played and (ii). In addition to the audio file\, the extracted facial visual parameters were displayed on the virtual avatar. Our results suggest the validity of using additional visual parameters in the avatars’ face as it helps to determine emotions. We conclude with a brief discussion on the outcomes and their implications on future work.
URL:https://www.germanhci.de/event/using-expressive-avatars-to-increase-emotion-recognition-a-pilot-study/
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