@inproceedings{33d825da49b746b1948f85cbb865c323,
title = "Measuring Emotional Facial Expressions in Students with FaceReader: What Happens if Your Teacher is Not a Human, Instead, It is a Virtual Robotic Animal?",
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 {\textquotedblleft}FaceReader{\textquotedblright} to analyze data recorded during their class. The results showed that the virtual robot animal{\textquoteright}s appearance could affect participants{\textquoteright} 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.",
keywords = "Education, Emotional facial expressions, FaceReader, Virtual instructors, Virtual robot animals",
author = "\{Sierra Rativa\}, Alexandra and Marie Postma and \{van Zaanen\}, Menno",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 14th International Conference on Robotics in Education, RiE 2023 ; Conference date: 19-04-2023 Through 21-04-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-38454-7\_30",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031384530",
series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "367--379",
editor = "Richard Balogh and David Obdr{\v z}{\'a}lek and Eftychios Christoforou",
booktitle = "Robotics in Education - Proceedings of the RiE 2023 Conference",
address = "Germany",
}