Invisible Strings: Deriving Puppetry Principles and their Hidden Connections to Robot Behavior Design

arXiv:2607.03289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When designing robots' nonverbal behaviors, many researchers have turned to arts-based insights, such as Disney's Animation Principles. Yet, while these principles bear key insights into the design of like-life characters, their application to robot design is inherently limited, in part because animation is not constrained by real-world physics, and in part because animation principles focus on low level animation mechanics and not high-level desig...