Gaia: A Social Robot to Help Connect Humans and Plants

Christopher Xenophontos, Teressa Clark, Michael Seals, Cole Lampman, Iliyas Tursynbek, Mounia Ziat

2024

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Xenophontos C., Clark T., Seals M., Lampman C., Tursynbek I. and Ziat M. (2024). Gaia: A Social Robot to Help Connect Humans and Plants. In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-679-8, SciTePress, pages 400-407. DOI: 10.5220/0012266400003660

in Bibtex Style

@conference{hucapp24,
author={Christopher Xenophontos and Teressa Clark and Michael Seals and Cole Lampman and Iliyas Tursynbek and Mounia Ziat},
title={Gaia: A Social Robot to Help Connect Humans and Plants},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP},
year={2024},
pages={400-407},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012266400003660},
isbn={978-989-758-679-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP
TI - Gaia: A Social Robot to Help Connect Humans and Plants
SN - 978-989-758-679-8
AU - Xenophontos C.
AU - Clark T.
AU - Seals M.
AU - Lampman C.
AU - Tursynbek I.
AU - Ziat M.
PY - 2024
SP - 400
EP - 407
DO - 10.5220/0012266400003660
PB - SciTePress