Recent technological developments like cheap sensors and the decreasing costs of computational power have brought the possibility of robotic home companions within reach. In order to be accepted it is vital for these robots to be able to participate ...
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Apr 23, 2015
Notwithstanding the significant role that human-robot interactions (HRI) will play in the near future, limited research has explored the neural correlates of feeling eerie in response to social robots. To address this empirical lacuna, the current in...
Automatic continuous affective state prediction from naturalistic facial expression is a very challenging research topic but very important in human-computer interaction. One of the main challenges is modeling the dynamics that characterize naturalis...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 1, 2015
Depression is a disease that can dramatically lower quality of life. Symptoms of depression can range from temporary sadness to suicide. Embarrassment, shyness, and the stigma of depression are some of the factors preventing people from getting help ...
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Mar 25, 2015
Recognition of natural emotions from human faces is an interesting topic with a wide range of potential applications, such as human-computer interaction, automated tutoring systems, image and video retrieval, smart environments, and driver warning sy...
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
Mar 23, 2015
OBJECTIVES: The development of ecologically valid procedures for collecting reliable and unbiased emotional data towards computer interfaces with social and affective intelligence targeting patients with mental disorders.
In this paper, we present a new idea to analyze facial expression by exploring some common and specific information among different expressions. Inspired by the observation that only a few facial parts are active in expression disclosure (e.g., aroun...
AIM: To investigate the effects of interacting with the companion robot, Paro, on blood pressure and heart rate of older people in a residential care facility.
A new non-pharmacological method of distraction was tested with 57 children during their annual flu vaccination. Given children's growing enthusiasm for technological devices, a humanoid robot was programmed to interact with them while a nurse admini...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Aug 1, 2025
The utilization of robots in the food industry, including restaurants and cafés, has increased in recent years. This study investigated participants' responses to robots in the serving and cooking domains, which require varying degrees of consumer in...