Mental health issues are receiving more and more attention in society. In this paper, we
introduce a preliminary study on human–robot mental comforting conversation, to make an …

Abstract In recent years, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has become emerging innovation in
robotics research and development. Research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) aims to …

The attribution of mind to others, either humans or artificial agents, can be conceptualized
along two dimensions: experience and agency. These dimensions are crucial in interactions …

As the key of human–computer natural interaction, the research of emotion recognition is of
great significance to the development of computer intelligence. In view of the issue that the …

This paper mainly explores the computational model that connects a robot's emotional body
movements with human emotion to propose an emotion recognition method for humanoid …

The number of smart devices is expected to exceed 100 billion by 2050, and many will
feature conversational user interfaces. Thus, methods for generating appropriate prosody for …

The goal of emotional voice conversion (EVC) is to convert the emotion of a speaker's voice
from one state to another while maintaining the original speaker's identity and the linguistic …

The ability to interact verbally with humans is a key requirement of many social robots. It is
common however for robot speech to lack contextual human-like prosody, making it …

Affective prosody is an indispensable cognitive cue that moderates social activities, and has
become a prevailing research topic in psychology-related disciplines. The present study …

Zielstellung Kontext. Entlang der aktuell stark bearbeiteten Forschungsfelder der
Künstlichen Intelligenz und der natürlich-sprachlichen Interaktion entwickelt sich der Bereich …