Sketching CuddleBits: Coupled Prototyping of Body and Behaviour for an Affective Robot Pet
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Builds cheap, DIY 1-DOF breathing robots (FlexiBit, RibBit) and tools: vocal sketching that maps pitch/amplitude to pose, a keyframe editor, and laser/cuttable templates. Validates that simple breathing waveforms reliably signal arousal (strong correlation), while valence is weaker, using crowdsourced ratings (validated with N=20, analyzed N=14) and a collected corpus of 72 behaviors from N=10. Finds larger, faster motions raise arousal; higher waveform complexity trends toward positive valence.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:43What is a CuddleBit
- 3:42CuddleBits
- 4:11Research Question
- 4:33Design Process
- 5:21Prototyping
- 6:42Design Systems
- 8:03Behaviour Design
- 8:20Behavior Design
- 9:08Demonstration
- 12:20Analysis
- 13:54Correlation
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