eMuu - an embodied emotional character for the ambient intelligent home

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Emotional expressions of machines 11 18 27 3. Overview of characters in literature and products 32 36 4. Requirements for the characters 39 5. Implementation of the characters 48 51 55 63 67 68 71 72 74 79 81 83 96 7. Conclusions 101 102 103 106 108 8. References 109 9. Appendix 124 125 10. Samenvatting (summary in Dutch) 127 vi Introduction I 1 Many companies, universities and research institutes are working on the home of the future. Besides Microsoft and IBM, Philips Research is one of the key players and made recently a considerable step forward by opening a first prototype, called Home Lab (Aarts, 2002). One of the central concepts in the idea for the HomeLab is Ambient Intelligence (see box 1) (Aarts, Harwig, Schuurmans, 2001). One of the key components of ambient intelligence, as described above, is the natural interaction between the home and the user. The most natural human