Autonomous Robot Figure Display for Intuitive Emotion Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional autonomous moving bodies, such as robots, face challenges in intuitively conveying their state of feeling to users, making it difficult for users to understand the robot's emotional feedback and subsequent actions.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that utilizes a control unit to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body on a screen, adjusting its state based on sensed position and feeling parameters, allowing for intuitive representation of the robot's emotional state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If the autonomous moving body internally executes arithmetic processing, then the processing capability is improved, but the intuitiveness of presenting the changing state to the user deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a figure as an intermediary visual element that mediates between the autonomous moving body's internal arithmetic processing and the user's perception. The figure translates complex internal states into intuitive visual representations, allowing users to understand the robot's processing status without directly exposing complex computational details.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy (the figure) that represents the autonomous moving body's internal state. This copy mirrors the body's arithmetic processing status through visual changes, enabling users to perceive complex computational states through simple visual transformations without needing to understand the underlying arithmetic operations.
2Loss of information
If the autonomous moving body presents its internal state, then the information completeness is improved, but the ease of understanding by the user deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes color changes in the figure to represent different aspects of the autonomous moving body's internal state. By encoding state information through color variations, the system maintains information completeness while presenting it in an easily distinguishable and intuitive visual format that users can quickly comprehend without complex interpretations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the autonomous moving body's internal state from an abstract computational dimension into a visual dimension through the figure. This dimensional transformation allows comprehensive state information to be presented in a spatially intuitive format, making complex internal states easily understandable through visual perception rather than requiring cognitive processing of abstract data.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of intuitively and easily indicating a state of feeling of the autonomous moving body to the user. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that, according to a change in a position of the autonomous moving body sensed by a sensing unit that senses the position of the autonomous moving body and a feeling parameter indicating the feeling of the autonomous moving body, causes a display screen to display a figure corresponding to the autonomous moving body while changing a state of the figure. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an apparatus and the like that controls an autonomous moving body.