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AUTOMATED DECLARATIVE GESTURE GENERATION FOR NON-EMOTIONAL HUMAN HUMANOID CONVERSATION

Singh, Aditi
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0082-8364
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1512001558726767

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2017, MS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Computer Science.
Gesture is a visible but inaudible universal language for the communication of intent between two entities for communication. Gesture includes various timed postures and timed coordinated motions (voluntary and involuntary) of different body-parts such as head, neck, eyes, spine, hand, shoulders, torso and their combinations. It expresses both non-emotional moods, conversational modes and dynamic relationship between the speaker and the listener. It is one of three major components of human-human interaction along with facial expressions and speech (including silence). For humanoids to interact with humans in an acceptable meaningful manner, it has to understand conversation and respond in a naturalistic way mimicking human gestures. Human conversations exhibit many types of universally accepted gestures that involve coordinated combination of posture and movement of head, eye and jaw with different speed and frequency. This research describes various conversational gestures and develops a declarative modeling technique to express gestures as coordinated movement of organs that are translated to coordinated and synchronized movements of motors. These libraries of motor control instructions are interpreted using Python language that drives a combination of stepper and servo motors to emulate coordinated organ movements. The project has many advantages in providing company to elderly care and medical patient care, reading stories to children and providing personal secretary to people.
Arvind K. Bansal (Advisor)
Javed Khan (Committee Member)
Cheng Chang Lu (Committee Member)
Jong-Hoon Kim (Committee Member)
Robotics
conversation; data-driven; eye-movement; gesture; head-movement; humanoid; non-emotional; social robotics

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  • Singh, A. (2017). AUTOMATED DECLARATIVE GESTURE GENERATION FOR NON-EMOTIONAL HUMAN HUMANOID CONVERSATION [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1512001558726767

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Singh, Aditi. AUTOMATED DECLARATIVE GESTURE GENERATION FOR NON-EMOTIONAL HUMAN HUMANOID CONVERSATION. 2017. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1512001558726767.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Singh, Aditi. "AUTOMATED DECLARATIVE GESTURE GENERATION FOR NON-EMOTIONAL HUMAN HUMANOID CONVERSATION." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1512001558726767

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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