Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling
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| author | Silva-Plata, Carolina Villavicencio-Carmona, Abraham Plata, Miguel Silva Escaida, Stefan Fernandez, Ruben |
| author_facet | Silva-Plata, Carolina Villavicencio-Carmona, Abraham Plata, Miguel Silva Escaida, Stefan Fernandez, Ruben |
| contents | Soft robotics is increasingly explored in artistic contexts, where tactile interaction provides audiences with embodied engagement beyond visual or auditory signals. This work presents an interactive installation that maps semantic emotion analysis of narrative text into variable stiffness of soft pneumatic modules. A natural language model identifies two dominant emotions from a predefined set of six, driving the inflation of seven hexagonally arranged soft actuators. The central actuator represents the primary emotion, while the surrounding ones express the secondary. We develop and mechanically characterize silicone actuators, called soft modules, featuring a thin membrane layer, demonstrating how this morphological control expands the achievable stiffness range while preserving simplicity and low-cost fabrication. A user study with ten participants further evaluates how multisensory coupling of stiffness and LEDs intensity influences emotional perception. The results suggest that stiffness modulation accompanied by color change can support emotionally meaningful and engaging tactile interaction in soft robotic installations. |
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| spellingShingle | Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling Silva-Plata, Carolina Villavicencio-Carmona, Abraham Plata, Miguel Silva Escaida, Stefan Fernandez, Ruben Robotics Human-Computer Interaction Soft robotics is increasingly explored in artistic contexts, where tactile interaction provides audiences with embodied engagement beyond visual or auditory signals. This work presents an interactive installation that maps semantic emotion analysis of narrative text into variable stiffness of soft pneumatic modules. A natural language model identifies two dominant emotions from a predefined set of six, driving the inflation of seven hexagonally arranged soft actuators. The central actuator represents the primary emotion, while the surrounding ones express the secondary. We develop and mechanically characterize silicone actuators, called soft modules, featuring a thin membrane layer, demonstrating how this morphological control expands the achievable stiffness range while preserving simplicity and low-cost fabrication. A user study with ten participants further evaluates how multisensory coupling of stiffness and LEDs intensity influences emotional perception. The results suggest that stiffness modulation accompanied by color change can support emotionally meaningful and engaging tactile interaction in soft robotic installations. |
| title | Literary Emotions in Motion: A Soft Robotics Installation for Tactile Storytelling |
| topic | Robotics Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00418 |