For human–robot interaction (HRI), perception is one of the most important capabilities. This
paper reviews several widely used perception methods of HRI in social robots. Specifically …

In this article we give guidelines on how to address the major technical challenges of
automatic emotion recognition from speech in human-computer interfaces, which include …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

When robots are used as part of meaningful play, for example to enhance wellbeing, they
can be considered “serious toys”. Our study examines the potential of robotic pet toys …

We present EmoVoice, a framework for emotional speech corpus and classifier creation and
for offline as well as real-time online speech emotion recognition. The framework is intended …

In this paper we present a general framework for affective human-robot interaction that
allows users to intuitively interact with a robot and takes into account their mental fatigue …

Affective gaming (AG) is a cross-disciplinary area drawing upon psychology, physiology,
electronic engineering and computer science, among others. This paper presents a …

Introduction Robots are being introduced into increasingly social environments. As these
robots become more ingrained in social spaces, they will have to abide by the social norms …

It has been shown that the emotional state of students plays an important role towards
learning; for instance, engaged concentration is positively correlated with learning. This …

The aim of this work is to define a speech emotion recognition (SER) model able to
recognize positive, neutral and negative emotions in natural conversations of Italian elderly …