Expressive Gestures Displayed by a Humanoid Robot during a Storytelling Application (original) (raw)

Our purpose is to have the humanoid robot, NAO, to read a story aloud through expressive verbal and nonverbal behaviors. These behaviors are linked to the story being told and the emotions to be conveyed. To this aim, we are gathering a repertoire of gestures and body-postures for the robot using a video corpus of story-tellers. The robot's behavior is controlled by the Greta platform that drives agents to communicate through verbal and nonverbal means. In this paper we are presenting our research methodology and overall framework.