• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.563-571
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is to establish an emotional expression factors of digital eye contents that can be applied to digital environments. The emotion which can be applied to the smart doll is derived and we suggest guidelines for expressive factors of each emotion. For this paper, first, we research the concepts and characteristics of emotional expression are shown in eyes by the publications, animation and actual video. Second, we identified six emotions -Happy, Angry, Sad, Relaxed, Sexy, Pure- and extracted the emotional expression factors. Third, we analyzed the extracted factors to establish guideline for emotional expression of digital eyes. As a result, this study found that the factors to distinguish and represent each emotion are classified four categories as eye shape, gaze, iris size and effect. These can be used as a way to enhance emotional communication effects such as digital contents including animations, robots and smart toys.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 2003

Recently, robots technique has been developed remarkably. Emotion recognition is necessary to make an intimate robot. This paper shows the simulator and simulation result which recognize or classify emotions by learning pitch pattern. Also, because the pitch is not sufficient for recognizing emotion, we added acoustic elements. For that reason, we analyze the relation between emotion and acoustic elements. The simulator is composed of the DRNN(Dynamic Recurrent Neural Network), Feature extraction. DRNN is a learning algorithm for pitch pattern.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.12-18
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• 2010

미래의 우리생활 환경에서는 기존의 PC와는 다른 형태의 컴퓨팅 기술을 요구할 것이다. IT 기반 환경이 발전됨에 따라서 지능 및 감성을 갖는 개인 서비스 로봇으로 발전하게 될 것이다. 즉 IT와 지능 기술을 로봇에 융합함으로써, 내가 컴퓨터에서 가서 필요한 정보를 받는 수동적 환경 보다는 로봇이 내게로 와서 내가 원하는 일을 하고, 원하는 정보를 제공하는 인간 중심적 환경을 만드는 것이 IT 융합형 미래형 로봇에 대한 궁극적인 목표라고 할 수 있다. 본 고에서는 IT 융합형 미래형 로봇 기술의 기반이 되는 기술동향을 소개하고, 미래형 로봇의 기반이 되는 요소 기술을 소개한다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.763-770
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• 2004

The important issue of emotion recognition from speech is a feature extracting and pattern classification. Features should involve essential information for classifying the emotions. Feature selection is needed to decompose the components of speech and analyze the relation between features and emotions. Specially, a pitch of speech components includes much information for emotion. Accordingly, this paper searches the relation of emotion to features such as the sound loudness, pitch, etc. and classifies the emotions by using the statistic of the collecting data. This paper deals with the method of recognizing emotion from the sound. The most important emotional component of sound is a tone. Also, the inference ability of a brain takes part in the emotion recognition. This paper finds empirically the emotional components from the speech and experiment on the emotion recognition. This paper also proposes the recognition method using these emotional components and the transition probability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.489-492
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• 2002

최근 인간형 로봇에 대한 개발이 괄목할 만한 성장을 이루고 있고, 친근한 로봇의 개발에 중요한 역할을 담당하는 것으로써 감성/감정의 인식이 필수적이라는 인식이 확산되고 있다. 본 논문은 음성의 감정인식에 있어 가장 큰 부분을 차지하는 피치의 패턴을 인식하여 감정을 분류/인식하는 시뮬레이터의 개발과 실험결과를 나타낸다. 또한, 피치뿐 아니라 음향학적으로 날카로움, 낮음등의 요소를 분류의 기준으로 포함시켜서 좀더 신뢰성 있는 인식을 할 수 있음을 보인다. 시뮬레이터의 내부 구조로는 음성으로부터 피치를 추출하는 부분과 피치의 패턴을 학습시키는 DRNN 부분, 그리고, 음향적 특성을 추출하는 음향 추출부가 주요 요소로 이루어져 있다. 그리고, 피치를 추출하는 방법으로는 Center-Clipping 함수를 이용한 autocorrelation approach를 사용하고, 학습 시 최적의 개체를 찾는 방법으로써 (1+100)-ES를 사용한다.

• Communications of the Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.65-72
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• 2008

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.17-28
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• 2005

With the advent of computer technology, the fundamental nature of products has shaped from physical forms towards product interactivity, The focus is now on usability of the product with ease and efficiency rather than conversing with just the looks of the product. However, most definitions of usability and contemporary usability-related researches, have focused on the performance-oriented functional aspects of usability (i.e., how well users perform tasks using a product). Today, user expectations are higher; products that bring not only functional benefits but also emotional satisfaction. So far, there have been many studies on human emotions and the emotional side of products in the field of emotional engineering. Contemporary emotion-related researches have focused mainly on the relationship between product aesthetics and the emotional responses elicited by the products, but little is known about emotions elicited from using the products. The main objective of our research is analyzing user's emotional changes while using a product, to reveal the influence of usability on human emotions. In this research, we suggested conceptual framework for the study on the relationship between usability of products, and human emotions with emphasis on mobile phones. We also extracted emotional words for measuring user's emotions expressed not from looking at the product's appearance, but from using the product. First, we assembled a set of emotions that is sufficiently extensive to represent a general overview of the full repertoire of Korean emotions from the literature study. Secondly, we found emotional words in the after note by the users on the websites. Finally, verbal protocols in which the user says out loud what he/she ks feeling while he/she ks carrying out a task were collected. And then, the appropriateness of extracted emotional words was verified by the members of the consumer panel of a company through web survey. It is expected that emotional words extracted in this research will be used to measure user's emotional changes while using a product. Based on the conceptual framework suggested in this research, basic guidelines on interface design methods that reflect user's emotions will be illustrated.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2010

This paper presents the sound-based emotion estimation method and the growing HRI (human-robot interaction) system for a Mon-E robot. The method of emotion estimation uses the musical element based on the law of harmony and counterpoint. The emotion is estimated from sound using the information of musical elements which include chord, tempo, volume, harmonic and compass. In this paper, the estimated emotions display the standard 12 emotions including Eckman's 6 emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise) and the opposite 6 emotions (calmness, love, confidence, unhappiness, gladness, comfortableness) of those. The growing HRI system analyzes sensing information, estimated emotion and service log in an edutainment robot. So, it commands the behavior of the robot. The growing HRI system consists of the emotion client and the emotion server. The emotion client estimates the emotion from sound. This client not only transmits the estimated emotion and sensing information to the emotion server but also delivers response coming from the emotion server to the main program of the robot. The emotion server not only updates the rule table of HRI using information transmitted from the emotion client and but also transmits the response of the HRI to the emotion client. The proposed system was applied to a Mon-E robot and can supply friendly HRI service to users.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.325-326
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• 2008

서비스 로봇은 인간과 상호 교감을 하기 때문에 감성기반 인터렉션을 가지고 있어야 한다. 그리고 로봇이 인지하는 상황과 환경이 같을지라도 감정 기반 행동 결정 모델의 출력이 달라질수 있도록 한다. 이는 설계하고자 하는 감정 기반 행동 결정 모델의 특성을 변화함으써 해결하고자 하며, 감정 모델의 특성은 성격을 의미한다. 따라서 사람과 같이 성격을 달리함으로써 로봇이 감정을 느끼고 이에 따른 반응을 행동으로 옮길 때, 성격을 반영한 결과를 보이게 된다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 감정 엔진 모델은 reaction dynamics와 internal dynamics, emotional dynamics, behavior dynamics, 성격 등의 다섯 가지 요소로 구성되어 있다. 모든 dynamics는 성격에 영향을 받아 결과를 출력한다. 실험을 위하여 시뮬레이터를 구현하여 성능을 검증하고, 실제 로봇에 적용하기 위하여 3D 캐릭터기반의 헤드 로봇 시스템을 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2017

영화는 인간이 할 수 있는 상상력을 가능하게 해주며 그것을 간접경험 및 학습 가능한 도구로서, SF영화 등에 사용된 과학기술을 시청각으로 접할 수 있다. 영화의 내용에서 제시된 로봇사회의 긍정적 모습과 부정적 보습을 시청함으로서 인간이 지켜야할 감성과 윤리적 도덕적 교육까지 가능하게 하며 나아가 다가올 미래 사회에서 새롭게 생겨날 직업까지도 생각할 수 있도록 한다.