Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 400-407 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications |
| Volume | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2024 - Rome, Italy Duration: Feb 27 2024 → Feb 29 2024 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Arduino
- Human-Plant Interaction
- Multimodal Design
- Social Robots
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Human-Computer Interaction
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