Designing reactive emotion generation model for interactive robots

Design of reactive emotion generation mechanism for interactive robots is proposed in this paper. Sorts of reactive emotions and the framework to generate these emotions against stimuli were identified based on psychological researches on humans' emotions. Computational models of reactive emotion system were also proposed with dynamic models. Each model realized necessary characteristics for reactive process successfully. The developed model was implemented in a toy-like robot which is called `GOMY'. The robot can show emotional response reactively against stimulus change. The proposed reactive emotion model can be considered as the most basic foundation of general emotional process for interactive robots.