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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
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Postma,Marie
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van Zaanen,Menno
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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.
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2023
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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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. 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
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