It's Food Fight! Introducing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel affective-aware human-robot interaction game, the Chef's Hat Card Game, designed to facilitate the development of socially intelligent robots capable of understanding and responding to emotional cues.

Contribution

It presents a new game scenario and a modeling strategy for affective interaction in autonomous robots, advancing affective-aware HRI research.

Findings

Designed a new affective-aware HRI game scenario

Proposed a modeling strategy for affective interaction

Facilitates development of emotionally responsive social robots

Abstract

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.