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Collaborative interactions require social robots to adapt to the dynamics of human affective behaviour. Yet, current approaches for affective behaviour generation in robots focus on instantaneous perception to generate a one-to-one mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Nikhil Churamani , Pablo Barros , Hatice Gunes , Stefan Wermter

Emotional concepts play a huge role in our daily life since they take part into many cognitive processes: from the perception of the environment around us to different learning processes and natural communication. Social robots need to…

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Nowadays, robots are increasingly operated in environments shared with humans, where conflicts between human and robot behaviors may compromise safety. This paper presents a proactive behavioral conflict avoidance framework based on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Shuang Wei , Muhua Zhang , Yun Gan , Deqing Huang , Lei Ma , Chenguang Yang

Emotion expression is central to human--robot interaction, yet little is known about how people interpret affect on robots with sparse, non-anthropomorphic expressive capabilities. This study examined how people perceive emotional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Amit Rogel , Elmira Yadollahi , Guy Laban

Understanding the intentions of robots is essential for natural and seamless human-robot collaboration. Ensuring that robots have means for non-verbal communication is a basis for intuitive and implicit interaction. For this, we contribute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jan Leusmann , Steeven Villa , Thomas Liang , Chao Wang , Albrecht Schmidt , Sven Mayer

Owing to the recent success of Large Language Models, Modern A.I has been much focused on linguistic interactions with humans but less focused on non-linguistic forms of communication between man and machine. In the present paper, we test…

Being able to recognize emotions in human users is considered a highly desirable trait in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. However, most contemporary approaches rarely attempt to apply recognized emotional features in an active…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Nikhil Churamani , Alexander Sutherland , Pablo Barros

Emotional expressions and their changes during an interaction affect heavily how we perceive and behave towards other persons. To design an HRI scenario that makes possible to observe, understand, and model affective interactions and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Pablo Barros , Alessandra Sciutti , Anne C. Bloem , Inge M. Hootsmans , Lena M. Opheij , Romain H. A. Toebosch , Emilia Barakova

In conflict, people use emotional expressions to shape their counterparts' thoughts, feelings, and actions. This paper explores whether automatic text emotion recognition offers insight into this influence in the context of dispute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Sushrita Rakshit , James Hale , Kushal Chawla , Jeanne M. Brett , Jonathan Gratch

In this study, we examined scene selection methods and emotion-based descriptions for a robot's daily diary. We proposed a scene selection method and an emotion description method that take into account semantic and affective information,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Aiko Ichikura , Kento Kawaharazuka , Yoshiki Obinata , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Technology has become an essential part in every aspect of our lives. However the key to a successful implementation of a technology depends on the acceptance by the general public. In order to increase the acceptance various approaches can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Johannes Feldmaier , Tamara Marmat , Johannes Kuhn , Klaus Diepold

In human-robot interaction (HRI), we study how humans interact with robots, but also the effects of robot behavior on human perception and well-being. Especially, the influence on humans by tandem robots with one human controlled and one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Julian Kaduk , Friederike Weilbeer , Heiko Hamann

Affective tactile interaction constitutes a fundamental component of human communication. In natural human-human encounters, touch is seldom experienced in isolation; rather, it is inherently multisensory. Individuals not only perceive the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Qiaoqiao Ren , Tony Belpaeme

As emotion plays a growing role in robotic research it is crucial to develop methods to analyze and compare among the wide range of approaches. To this end we present a survey of 1427 IEEE and ACM publications that include robotics and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Richard Savery , Gil Weinberg

Human emotions are complex and can be conveyed through nuanced touch gestures. Previous research has primarily focused on how humans recognize emotions through touch or on identifying key features of emotional expression for robots.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Qiaoqiao Ren , Remko Proesmans , Yuanbo Hou , Francis wyffels , Tony Belpaeme

To enhance human-robot social interaction, it is essential for robots to process multiple social cues in a complex real-world environment. However, incongruency of input information across modalities is inevitable and could be challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Di Fu , Fares Abawi , Hugo Carneiro , Matthias Kerzel , Ziwei Chen , Erik Strahl , Xun Liu , Stefan Wermter

Quadruped robots are currently used in industrial robotics as mechanical aid to automate several routine tasks. However, presently, the usage of such a robot in a domestic setting is still very much a part of the research. This paper…

Strategies are necessary to mitigate the impact of unexpected behavior in collaborative robotics, and research to develop solutions is lacking. Our aim here was to explore the benefits of an affective interaction, as opposed to a more…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Adriana Hamacher , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze , Anthony G. Pipe , Kerstin Eder

There are many different ways a robot can move in Human-Robot Interaction. One way is to use techniques from film animation to instruct the robot to move. This article is a systematic literature review of human-robot trials, pilots, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Trenton Schulz , Jim Torresen , Jo Herstad

This study explores how human perceptions of a non-anthropomorphic robotic manipulator are shaped by two key dimensions of behaviour: arousal, defined as the robot's movement energy and expressiveness, and attention, defined as the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Roy El-Helou , Matthew K. X. J Pan