Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions

Guy Laban, Sebastien Le Maguer, Minha Lee, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Samantha Reig, Ilaria Torre, Ravi Tejwani, Matthew J. Dennis, Andre Pereira

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Abstract

Following the success of the first edition of Robo-Identity, the second edition will provide an opportunity to expand the discussion about artificial identity. This year, we are focusing on emotions that are expressed through speech and voice. Synthetic voices of robots can resemble and are becoming indistinguishable from expressive human voices. This can be an opportunity and a constraint in expressing emotional speech that can (falsely) convey a human-like identity that can mislead people, leading to ethical issues. How should we envision an agent's artificial identity? In what ways should we have robots that maintain a machine-like stance, e.g., through robotic speech, and should emotional expressions that are increasingly human-like be seen as design opportunities? These are not mutually exclusive concerns. As this discussion needs to be conducted in a multidisciplinary manner, we welcome perspectives on challenges and opportunities from variety of fields. For this year's edition, the special theme will be 'speech, emotion and artificial identity'.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHRI 2022
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages1265-1268
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-0731-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Sept 2022
Event17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022 - Sapporo, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Japan
Duration: 7 Mar 202210 Mar 2022
https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2022/

Conference

Conference17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022
Abbreviated titleHRI 2022
Country/TerritoryJapan
CitySapporo
Period7/03/2210/03/22
Internet address

Funding

This workshop is partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie to ENTWINE, the European Training Network on Informal Care (grant agreement no. 814072); the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research project FACT (GMT14-0082); KTH Digital Futures; the 4TU Humans & Technology research center; the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, grant 80NSSC19K1133; Irish Research Council, grant 208222/15425; and The SFI ADAPT Centre, grant 13/RC/2106 P2.

FundersFunder number
Royal Institute of Technology
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme814072
Irish Research Council13/RC/2106 P2, 208222/15425

    Keywords

    • affective computing
    • affective science
    • artificial identity
    • emotion
    • human-robot interaction
    • speech
    • voice

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