Flickr allows its users to tag the pictures they like as “favorite”. As a result, many users of the
popular photo-sharing platform produce galleries of favorite pictures. This article proposes …

In this paper, we investigate the use of a social robot as an engaging interface of a serious
game intended to make children more aware and well disposed towards waste recycle. The …

Estimating the engagement is critical for human–robot interaction. Engagement measures
typically rely on the dynamics of the social signals exchanged by the partners, especially …

Building socially-intelligent AI agents (Social-AI) is a multidisciplinary, multimodal research
goal that involves creating agents that can sense, perceive, reason about, learn from, and …

Social signal processing (SSP) is a new cross-disciplinary research domain that aims at
understanding and modeling social interactions (research in human sciences) and providing …

Although the concept of the consumer–brand relationship has undergone rapid change over
the past two decades, the issue of brand addiction is still generally neglected in the …

A key goal in human-robot interaction (HRI) is to design scenarios between humanoid
robots and humans such that the interaction is perceived as collaborative and natural, yet …

Conflict is one of the most important phenomena of social life, but it is still largely neglected
by the computing community. This work proposes an approach that detects common …

This article presents experiments on automatic detection of laughter and fillers, two of the
most important nonverbal behavioral cues observed in spoken conversations. The proposed …

Social robots are autonomous entities able to engage humans at the emotional and social
level. They are being used in several domains, especially in those where kids are the …