Robot mood is contagious: Effects of robot body language in the imitation game

13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 973-980

  Xu, Junchao ^a   Broekens, Joost ^a   Hindriks, Koen ^a   Neerincx, Mark A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral cues; Body language; Human Robot Interaction (HRI); Mood expression; Nonverbal cues; Social robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911416422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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