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AI Development > LIREC
The LIREC project (Living with Robots and Interactive Companions) is an attempt to help create interactive, emotionally intelligent, synthetic companions which are capable of long-term relationships with human users, and able to move between robot-based interaction and virtual avatar form. The project hopes to to examine how we react to a familiar companion entity when it swaps from a robot body into a virtual form and back again - is the perception any different, or do we bond more deeply when that occurs? The initial phase is to examine existing at-home robots to study user perception. Toy robots such as Pleo, and GlowBots are being examined. Also looked at are child like robots. Kaspar, a research robot on cognitive development being one under study. LIREC is also looking at the manner in which humans and dogs interact, for inspiration in creating synthetic companions. Results:Project still underway. Preceeding Projects:No direct ancestor Lead Institution:Queen Mary, University of London Other Institutions:The
University of Hertfordshire, UK FoAM, Belgium Funding:The European Commission has awarded LIREC a £6.5m grant, for a four and a half year project, concluding in late 2012. Further ReadingStaff Comments
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