TY - GEN
T1 - Gaia: A Social Robot to Help Connect Humans and Plants
AU - Xenophontos, Christopher
AU - Clark, Teressa
AU - Seals, Michael
AU - Lampman, Cole
AU - Tursynbek, Iliyas
AU - Ziat, Mounia
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Interacting with plants has been shown to increase both physical and mental health outcomes and seemed obvious for many during such troubling times. Inevitably, plants died as a result of the owner’s lack of awareness of their needs. Gaia, a social robot-planter, was created to communicate a plant’s needs to its owner in an easy and enjoyable way. The final prototype, a multimodal interface, was designed to join natural language messaging with an emotive digital face and “voice.” Creating a social robot that anthropomorphizes the user’s plant to effectively communicate the plants’ needs, build empathy, and create a stronger emotional bond between the plant and owner, leading to better outcomes for both.
AB - Interacting with plants has been shown to increase both physical and mental health outcomes and seemed obvious for many during such troubling times. Inevitably, plants died as a result of the owner’s lack of awareness of their needs. Gaia, a social robot-planter, was created to communicate a plant’s needs to its owner in an easy and enjoyable way. The final prototype, a multimodal interface, was designed to join natural language messaging with an emotive digital face and “voice.” Creating a social robot that anthropomorphizes the user’s plant to effectively communicate the plants’ needs, build empathy, and create a stronger emotional bond between the plant and owner, leading to better outcomes for both.
UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0012266400003660
U2 - 10.5220/0012266400003660
DO - 10.5220/0012266400003660
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 1
BT - 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2024
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