Design Process for Constructing Personality of An Entertainment Robot Based on Psychological Types

In the early years of robotics, an industrial robot was developed, but in these days, an entertainment robot is emerging as a new type of a robot. The design methodologies for industrial robots were based on the task or the function of the robots. However, because the purpose of an entertainment robot is to stimulate people’s emotion rather than to provide function, it is needed to be designed using different methodology from that of an industrial robot. In this paper, we define an entertainment robot as an autonomous robot, which interacts with people or environment in human’s daily life with entertaining purpose. As you can see from the definition of an entertainment robot, entertainment robot needs to have better interaction with people. In order to design an entertainment robot with better interaction, human’s interaction and communication cues should be inserted into robots’ mind model. Especially in case of entertainment robots, needed interaction and communication way is more focused on the emotional one rather than functional one. In this paper, in order to give an entertainment robot emotional social cues, we suggest a process to design a robot’s personality based on temperaments, which drives from psychological types, and for people to get involved in forming an entertainment robot’s personality, we propose ‘personality growth model’. The design methodology for constructing an entertainment robot’s personality will make the development process of an entertainment robot’s personality more efficient by providing criteria of possible personalities of robots.