Robotic cell phones express emotions
Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw, scientists in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), are the proud parents of a robotic cell phone family that can walk, dance and express human-like emotions. PhysOrg.com reports
Ji-Dong Yim and Chris Shaw, scientists in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT), are the proud parents of a robotic cell phone family that can walk, dance and express human-like emotions. PhysOrg.com reports.
Yim, a doctoral student, and Shaw, an associate professor, first used cell phone technology to create CALLY, a physically active robotic cell phone that stands roughly 16 centimeters high. She walks, dances and mimics human gestures. She can also help cell phone users make electronic eye contact with the person to whom they are talking by tracking human faces.
The SIAT researchers have most recently used wireless networking, text messaging and other interactive technologies to give birth to Callo. He is taller (almost 23 centimeters) and more emotionally sophisticated than his older sister.
Callo’s viewing screen registers text-messaged emoticons as human-like facial expressions. His robotic shoulders can slump and his arms can start waving frantically if he’s interactively triggered to respond to an emotional crisis, such as relationship break up.
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