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Voice Design for Human-Robot Interaction: Tuning Acoustic Cues for Diverse Robot Appearances
Srinualnad, Natrin (2024) Voice Design for Human-Robot Interaction: Tuning Acoustic Cues for Diverse Robot Appearances.
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| Abstract: | The increasing integration of robots into daily life necessitates an understanding of how a robot’s voice should match its physical appearance. Little attention from existing research has been given to how acoustic features including pitch, speaking rate, gender, and style of speaking interact with the robot’s human likeness and size. This study looks into how individuals adjust these voice parameters, using a custom-designed voice interface to fit robots of varying degrees of human likeness and size. Participants came up with voice settings for robots, ASIMO and Qbo, each representing a high and low level of human likeness, in both small and large-scale robots. The study involved 22 participants (16 men and 6 women), who individually altered voice characteristics. The data analyzed reveals significant differences in voice parameter preferences based on the robot’s appearance, with notable gender-specific tendencies. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Computer Science BSc (56964) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/101051 |
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