As a highly social species, humans frequently exchange social information to support almost
all facets of life. One of the richest and most powerful tools in social communication is the …

Robots of today are eager to leave constrained industrial environments and embrace
unexplored and unstructured areas, for extensive applications in the real world as service …

Thanks to the decreasing cost of whole-body sensing technology and its increasing
reliability, there is an increasing interest in, and understanding of, the role played by body …

The idea of robotic companions capable of establishing meaningful relationships with
humans remains far from being accomplished. To achieve this, robots must interact with …

The design of an affect recognition system for socially perceptive robots relies on
representative data: human-robot interaction in naturalistic settings requires an affect …

The increasing number of people playing games on touch-screen mobile phones raises the
question of whether touch behaviors reflect players' emotional states. This prospect would …

The present study investigates how children from two different cultural backgrounds
(Pakistani, Dutch) and two different age groups (8 and 12 year olds) experience interacting …

This paper explores children's social engagement to a robotic tutor by analyzing their
behavioral reactions to socially significant events initiated by the robot. Specific questions …

Our daily human life is filled with a myriad of joint action moments, be it children playing,
adults working together (ie, team sports), or strangers navigating through a crowd. Joint …

We introduce a humanoid robot bartender that is capable of dealing with multiple customers
in a dynamic, multi-party social setting. The robot system incorporates state-of-the-art …