OYaYa: A Desktop Robot Enabling Multimodal Interaction with Emotions

Abstract

We demonstrate a desktop robot OYaYa that imitates users’ emotional facial expressions and helps users manage emotions. Multiple equipped sensors in OYaYa enable multimodal interaction; for example, it recognizes users’ emotions from facial expressions and speeches. Besides, a dashboard illustrates how users interact with OYaYa and how their emotions change. We expect that OYaYa allows users to manage their emotions in a fun way.