Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal?

Alexandra Sierra Rativa; Marie Postma; Menno van Zaanen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_30

Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal?

Alexandra Sierra Rativa^*, Marie Postma, Menno van Zaanen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Based on new methods and algorithms to improve the detection of emotions from facial expressions employing sophisticated software during certain situations, we explore if a virtual robotic animal appearance design with the role of a virtual instructor can affect such emotions in users. A total of 131 students from two secondary public schools in Bogota, Colombia, participated in this study. We used an established facial emotion recognition software called “FaceReader” to analyze data recorded during their class. The results showed that the virtual robot animal’s appearance could affect participants’ emotional facial expressions when it was a virtual instructor in this study. The study contributes to our understanding of the visual appearance of virtual animals related to emotional facial expressions and their future enforcement concerning advances in artificial intelligence and educational robotics for accurate recognition of the emotions of users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference
Editors	Richard Balogh, David Obdržálek, Eftychios Christoforou
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	367-379
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783031384530
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_30
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 19 Apr 2023 → 21 Apr 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume	747 LNNS
ISSN (Print)	2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)	2367-3389

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	19/04/23 → 21/04/23

Keywords

Education
Emotional facial expressions
FaceReader
Virtual instructors
Virtual robot animals

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Sierra Rativa, A., Postma, M., & van Zaanen, M. (2023). Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal? In R. Balogh, D. Obdržálek, & E. Christoforou (Eds.), Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference (pp. 367-379). (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 747 LNNS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_30

Sierra Rativa, Alexandra ; Postma, Marie ; van Zaanen, Menno. / Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader : What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal?. Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. editor / Richard Balogh ; David Obdržálek ; Eftychios Christoforou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 367-379 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems).

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Sierra Rativa, A, Postma, M & van Zaanen, M 2023, Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal? in R Balogh, D Obdržálek & E Christoforou (eds), Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 747 LNNS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 367-379, 14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023, Limassol, Cyprus, 19/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_30

Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal? / Sierra Rativa, Alexandra; Postma, Marie; van Zaanen, Menno.
Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. ed. / Richard Balogh; David Obdržálek; Eftychios Christoforou. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 367-379 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; Vol. 747 LNNS).

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Sierra Rativa A, Postma M, van Zaanen M. Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal? In Balogh R, Obdržálek D, Christoforou E, editors, Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 367-379. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7_30

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