Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Humanoid Robot: A Case Study with Children

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 325-334

  Beck, Aryel ^a   Cañamero, Lola ^a   Hiolle, Antoine ^a   Damiano, Luisa ^a,b   Cosi, Piero ^c   Tesser, Fabio ^c   Sommavilla, Giacomo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotional body language; Perception; Robotic

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

BODY LANGUAGE; BODY POSTURES; CHILD-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; EXPRESS EMOTIONS; HEAD POSITION; HEAD-UP; HUMANOID ROBOT; KEY POSE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84880953454     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-013-0193-z     Document Type: Article

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