CALLY: The cell-phone robot with affective expressions

This poster describes a robot cell-phone named CALLY with which we are exploring the roles of facial and gestural expressions of robotic products in the human computer interaction. We discuss non-verbal anthropomorphic affect features as media for building emotional relationships between a user and a product, and introduce new types of robotic products in the market that may be capable of establish intimacy by applying such features. A couple of social robot application ideas generated from the early phase of our project are also presented with their usage scenarios and implementations. CALLY was used in our initial participatory design workshop and helped participants generate new application ideas.