Closing the loop: From affect recognition to empathic interaction

AFFINE'10 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments, Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-47

  Leite, Iolanda ^a   Pereira, André ^a   Mascarenhas, Samuel ^a   Castellano, Ginevra ^b   Martinho, Carlos ^a   Prada, Rui ^a   Paiva, Ana ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect recognition; Artificial companions; Empathy

Indexed keywords

AFFECT RECOGNITION; AFFECTIVE STATE; ARTIFICIAL COMPANIONS; EMPATHY; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; TERM RELATIONSHIP; VIRTUAL AGENT;

GESTURE RECOGNITION; ROBOTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78650479851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1877826.1877839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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