When my robot smiles at me: Enabling human-robot rapport via real-time head gesture mimicry

Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-108

  Riek, Laurel D ^a   Paul, Philip C ^a   Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Empathy; Facial expressions; Human robot interaction; Social robotics

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE COMPUTING; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; GESTURE ANALYSIS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77949285215     PISSN: 17837677     EISSN: 17838738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12193-009-0028-2     Document Type: Article

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