Perception of affects from non-facial expressions of the robot Nabaztag

Social robots using language and affective expressions can encourage and improve human-robot interaction. Body move-ments, postures, orientations, colors, and sounds can be used as either the primary method of expres-sion or to provide affective expression redundancy1. This study aimed at investigating how the elderly and the young perceive affects from expressions of Nabaztag, a non anthropomorphic robot with only non facial expressions