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Book Emotion Recognition and Understanding for Emotional Human Robot Interaction Systems

Download or read book Emotion Recognition and Understanding for Emotional Human Robot Interaction Systems written by Luefeng Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the key technologies and scientific problems involved in emotional robot systems, such as multimodal emotion recognition (i.e., facial expression/speech/gesture and their multimodal emotion recognition) and emotion intention understanding, and presents the design and application examples of emotional HRI systems. Aiming at the development needs of emotional robots and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) systems, this book introduces basic concepts, system architecture, and system functions of affective computing and emotional robot systems. With the professionalism of this book, it serves as a useful reference for engineers in affective computing, and graduate students interested in emotion recognition and intention understanding. This book offers the latest approaches to this active research area. It provides readers with the state-of-the-art methods of multimodal emotion recognition, intention understanding, and application examples of emotional HRI systems.

Book Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics written by Vallverdú, Jordi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions convey significant information through means of natural language analysis, embodiment, and emotional signing. Machines equipped with the ability to experience and interpret emotions perform better in complex environments and share in the emotionally-rich social context. The Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics presents a solid framework for taking human-robot interaction closer to its full potential. Presenting a close look at all the factors involved in modeling emotions and applying a thorough understanding of human emotional recognition to technology, this volume appeals to active researchers in the fields of artificial emotions, artificial intelligence, computing, robotics, philosophy, and psychology, as well as to students interested in the research of synthetic emotions.

Book Emotional Design in Human Robot Interaction

Download or read book Emotional Design in Human Robot Interaction written by Hande Ayanoğlu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While social robots participation increases in everyday human life, their presence in diverse contexts and situations is expected. At the same point, users tend to become more demanding regarding their roles, abilities, behaviour and appearance. Thus, designers and developers are confronted with the need to design more sophisticated robots that can produce such a positive reaction from users so as to become well accepted in various cases of use. Like this, Human-Robot Interaction has become a developing area. Emotions are an important part in human life, since they mediate the interaction with other humans, entities and/or products. In recent years, there has been an increase in the importance of emotions applied to the design field, giving rise to the so-called Emotional Design area. In the case of Human-Robot Interaction, the emotional design can help to elicit (e.g., pleasurable) or prevent (e.g., unpleasant) emotional/affective reactions/responses. This book gives a practical introduction to emotional design in human-robot interaction and supports designers with knowledge and research tools to help them take design decisions based on a User-Centred Design approach. It should also be useful to people interested in design processes, even if not directly related to the design of social robots but, instead, to other technology-based artefacts. The text is meant as a reference source with practical guidelines and advice for design issues.

Book Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems   Volume I

Download or read book Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems Volume I written by Anna Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of research studies on the modeling of emotions in complex autonomous systems. Several experts in the field are reporting their efforts and reviewing the literature in order to shed lights on how the processes of coding and decoding emotional states took place in humans, which are the physiological, physical, and psychological variables involved, invent new mathematical models and algorithms to describe them, and motivate these investigations in the light of observable societal changes and needs, such as the aging population and the cost of health care services. The consequences are the implementation of emotionally and socially believable machines, acting as helpers into domestic spheres, where emotions drive behaviors and actions. The contents of the book are highly multidisciplinary since the modeling of emotions in robotic socially believable systems requires a holistic perspective on topics coming from different research domains such as computer science, engineering, sociology, psychology, linguistic, and information communication. The book is of interest both to experts and students since last research works on a so complex multidisciplinary topic are described in a neat and didactical scientific language.

Book Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Synthesizing Human Emotion in Intelligent Systems and Robotics written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a solid framework for taking human-robot interaction closer to its full potential, presenting a close look at all the factors involved in modeling emotions and applying a thorough understanding of human emotional recognition to technology

Book Human Robot Interaction

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gholamreza Anbarjafari
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-07-04
  • ISBN : 178923316X
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Human Robot Interaction written by Gholamreza Anbarjafari and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the vocal and visual modalities and human-robot interaction applications into account by considering three main aspects, namely, social and affective robotics, robot navigation, and risk event recognition. This book can be a very good starting point for the scientists who are about to start their research work in the field of human-robot interaction.

Book Applied Affective Computing

Download or read book Applied Affective Computing written by Leimin Tian and published by Morgan & Claypool. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective computing is a nascent field situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence with social and behavioral science. It studies how human emotions are perceived and expressed, which then informs the design of intelligent agents and systems that can either mimic this behavior to improve their intelligence or incorporate such knowledge to effectively understand and communicate with their human collaborators. Affective computing research has recently seen significant advances and is making a critical transformation from exploratory studies to real-world applications in the emerging research area known as applied affective computing. This book offers readers an overview of the state-of-the-art and emerging themes in affective computing, including a comprehensive review of the existing approaches to affective computing systems and social signal processing. It provides in-depth case studies of applied affective computing in various domains, such as social robotics and mental well-being. It also addresses ethical concerns related to affective computing and how to prevent misuse of the technology in research and applications. Further, this book identifies future directions for the field and summarizes a set of guidelines for developing next-generation affective computing systems that are effective, safe, and human-centered. For researchers and practitioners new to affective computing, this book will serve as an introduction to the field to help them in identifying new research topics or developing novel applications. For more experienced researchers and practitioners, the discussions in this book provide guidance for adopting a human-centered design and development approach to advance affective computing.

Book Human Machine Collaboration and Emotional Intelligence in Industry 5 0

Download or read book Human Machine Collaboration and Emotional Intelligence in Industry 5 0 written by Kumar, Nitendra and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rapidly evolving landscape of Industry 5.0, integrating emotional intelligence into the industrial framework is becoming increasingly crucial. Organizations are trying to navigate this uncharted territory and seeking guidance on understanding, implementing, and ethically managing artificial emotional intelligence (AEI). However, the absence of a comprehensive resource addressing these complexities has left a significant void in academic scholarship and industrial practice. Human-Machine Collaboration and Emotional Intelligence in Industry 5.0 offers a holistic exploration of emotion recognition, affective computing, and human-robot interaction. It equips readers with the knowledge and tools to successfully integrate AEI into Industry 5.0, ensuring a harmonious collaboration between humans and machines. This book is a go-to resource for scholars, industry professionals, and decision-makers seeking to leverage emotional intelligence in the Fifth Industrial Revolution by addressing practical implementations, ethical considerations, and real-world impacts.

Book Affect and Emotion in Human Computer Interaction

Download or read book Affect and Emotion in Human Computer Interaction written by Christian Peter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affect and emotion play an important role in our everyday lives: They are present whatever we do, wherever we are, and wherever we go, without us being aware of them for much of the time. When it comes to interaction, be it with humans, technology, or humans via technology, we suddenly become more aware of emotion, either by seeing the other’s emotional expression, or by not getting an emotional response while anticipating one. Given this, it seems only sensible to explore affect and emotion in human-computer interaction, to investigate the underlying principles, to study the role they play, to develop methods to quantify them, and to finally build applications that make use of them. This is the research field for which, over ten years ago, Rosalind Picard coined the phrase "affective computing". The present book provides an account of the latest work on a variety of aspects related to affect and emotion in human-technology interaction. It covers theoretical issues, user experience and design aspects as well as sensing issues, and reports on a number of affective applications that have been developed in recent years.

Book Robot Behavior Generation and Human Behavior Understanding in Natural Human Robot Interaction

Download or read book Robot Behavior Generation and Human Behavior Understanding in Natural Human Robot Interaction written by Chuang Yu and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a natural interaction makes a significant difference in a successful human-robot interaction (HRI). The natural HRI refers to both human multimodal behavior understanding and robot verbal or non-verbal behavior generation. Humans can naturally communicate through spoken dialogue and non-verbal behaviors. Hence, a robot should perceive and understand human behaviors so as to be capable of producing a natural multimodal and spontaneous behavior that matches the social context. In this thesis, we explore human behavior understanding and robot behavior generation for natural HRI. This includes multimodal human emotion recognition with visual information extracted from RGB-D and thermal cameras and non-verbal multimodal robot behavior synthesis.Emotion recognition based on multimodal human behaviors during HRI can help robots understand user states and exhibit a natural social interaction. In this thesis, we explored multimodal emotion recognition with thermal facial information and 3D gait data in HRI scene when the emotion cues from thermal face and gait data are difficult to disguise. A multimodal database with thermal face images and 3D gait data was built through the HRI experiments. We tested the various unimodal emotion classifiers (i.e., CNN, HMM, Random Forest model, SVM) and one decision-based hybrid emotion classifier on the database for offline emotion recognition. We also explored an online emotion recognition system with limited capability in the real-time HRI setting. Interaction plays a critical role in skills learning for natural communication. Robots can get feedback during the interaction to improve their social abilities in HRI.To improve our online emotion recognition system, we developed an interactive robot learning (IRL) model with the human in the loop. The IRL model can apply the human verbal feedback to label or relabel the data for retraining the emotion recognition model in a long-term interaction situation. After using the interactive robot learning model, the robot could obtain a better emotion recognition accuracy in real-time HRI.The human non-verbal behaviors such as gestures and face action occur spontaneously with speech, which leads to a natural and expressive interaction. Speech-driven gesture and face action generation are vital to enable a social robot to exhibit social cues and conduct a successful HRI. This thesis proposes a new temporal GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) architecture for a one-to-many mapping from acoustic speech representation to the humanoid robot's corresponding gestures. We also developed an audio-visual database to train the speaking gesture generation model. The database includes the speech audio data extracted directly from the videos and the associated 3D human pose data extracted from 2D RGB images. The generated gestures from the trained co-speech gesture synthesizer can be applied to social robots with arms. The evaluation result shows the effectiveness of our generative model for speech-driven robot gesture generation. Moreover, we developed an effective speech-driven facial action synthesizer based on GAN, i.e., given an acoustic speech, a synchronous and realistic 3D facial action sequence is generated. A mapping between the 3D human facial actions to real robot facial actions that regulate the Zeno robot facial expression is completed. The application of co-speech non-verbal robot behaviors (gesture and face action) synthesis for the social robot can make a friendly and natural human-robot interaction.

Book Facing Social Robots

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabelle M. Menne
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-04-23
  • ISBN : 3958261205
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Facing Social Robots written by Isabelle M. Menne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there emotional reactions towards social robots? Could you love a robot? Or, put the other way round: Could you mistreat a robot, tear it apart and sell it? Media reports people honoring military robots with funerals, mourning the "death" of a robotic dog, and granting the humanoid robot Sophia citizenship. But how profound are these reactions? Three experiments take a closer look on emotional reactions towards social robots by investigating the subjective experience of people as well as the motor expressive level. Contexts of varying degrees of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) sketch a nuanced picture of emotions towards social robots that encompass conscious as well as unconscious reactions. The findings advance the understanding of affective experiences in HRI. It also turns the initial question into: Can emotional reactions towards social robots even be avoided?

Book Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems

Download or read book Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems written by Min Wu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the developments in the advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems completed over the last two decades, including the progress in advanced control theory and method, intelligent control and decision-making of complex metallurgical processes, intelligent systems and machine learning, intelligent robot systems design and control, and prediction and control technology for renewable energy. With the depth and breadth of coverage of this book, it serves as a useful reference for engineers in the field of automation and complex process control and graduate students interested in advanced control theory and computational intelligence as well as their applications to the complex industrial processes. This book offers an up-to-date overview of this active research area. It provides readers with the state-of-the-art methods for advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems

Book Emotion Oriented Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paolo Petta
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-02-04
  • ISBN : 3642151841
  • Pages : 787 pages

Download or read book Emotion Oriented Systems written by Paolo Petta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotion pervades human life in general, and human communication in particular, and this sets information technology a challenge. Traditionally, IT has focused on allowing people to accomplish practical tasks efficiently, setting emotion to one side. That was acceptable when technology was a small part of life, but as technology and life become increasingly interwoven we can no longer ask people to suspend their emotional nature and habits when they interact with technology. The European Commission funded a series of related research projects on emotion and computing, culminating in the HUMAINE project which brought together leading academic researchers from the many related disciplines. This book grew out of that project, and its chapters are arranged according to its working areas: theories and models; signals to signs; data and databases; emotion in interaction; emotion in cognition and action; persuasion and communication; usability; and ethics and good practice. The fundamental aim of the book is to offer researchers an overview of the related areas, sufficient for them to do credible work on affective or emotion-oriented computing. The book serves as an academically sound introduction to the range of disciplines involved – technical, empirical and conceptual – and will be of value to researchers in the areas of artificial intelligence, psychology, cognition and user—machine interaction.

Book Emotional Machines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catrin Misselhorn
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-09-01
  • ISBN : 3658376414
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Emotional Machines written by Catrin Misselhorn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can machines simulate, express or even have emotions? Is it a good to build such machines? How do humans react emotionally to them and how should such devices be treated from a moral point of view? This volume addresses these and related questions by bringing together perspectives from affective computing and emotional human-machine interaction, combining technological approaches with those from the humanities and social sciences. It thus relates disciplines such as philosophy, computer science, technology, psychology, sociology, design, and art. The volume offers readers interested in the phenomenon of emotional machines new perspectives from a variety of disciplines and addresses fundamental questions that will become pressing in the foreseeable future as emotional machines increasingly populate our everyday lives.

Book Emotion Recognition Through Body Language for Human Robot Interaction

Download or read book Emotion Recognition Through Body Language for Human Robot Interaction written by Lilita Kiforenko and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Affective Computing

Download or read book Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Affective Computing written by Zhen Cui and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective computing refers to computing that relates to, arises from, or influences emotions. The goal of affective computing is to bridge the gap between humans and machines and ultimately endow machines with emotional intelligence for improving natural human-machine interaction. In the context of human-robot interaction (HRI), it is hoped that robots can be endowed with human-like capabilities of observation, interpretation, and emotional expression. The research on affective computing has recently achieved extensive progress with many fields contributing including neuroscience, psychology, education, medicine, behavior, sociology, and computer science. Current research in affective computing concentrates on estimating human emotions through different forms of signals such as speech, face, text, EEG, fMRI, and many others. In neuroscience, the neural mechanisms of emotion are explored by combining neuroscience with the psychological study of personality, emotion, and mood. In psychology and philosophy, emotion typically includes a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. The multi-disciplinary features of understanding “emotion” result in the fact that inferring the emotion of humans is definitely difficult. As a result, a multi-disciplinary approach is required to facilitate the development of affective computing. One of the challenging problems in affective computing is the affective gap, i.e., the inconsistency between the extracted feature representations and subjective emotions. To bridge the affective gap, various hand-crafted features have been widely employed to characterize subjective emotions. However, these hand-crafted features are usually low-level, and they may hence not be discriminative enough to depict subjective emotions. To address this issue, the recently-emerged deep learning (also called deep neural networks) techniques provide a possible solution. Due to the used multi-layer network structure, deep learning techniques are capable of learning high-level contributing features from a large dataset and have exhibited excellent performance in multiple application domains such as computer vision, signal processing, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and so on. The goal of this Research Topic is to gather novel contributions on deep learning techniques applied to affective computing across the diverse fields of psychology, machine learning, neuroscience, education, behavior, sociology, and computer science to converge with those active in other research areas, such as speech emotion recognition, facial expression recognition, Electroencephalogram (EEG) based emotion estimation, human physiological signal (heart rate) estimation, affective human-robot interaction, multimodal affective computing, etc. We welcome researchers to contribute their original papers as well as review articles to provide works regarding the neural approach from computation to affective computing systems. This Research Topic aims to bring together research including, but not limited to: • Deep learning architectures and algorithms for affective computing tasks such as emotion recognition from speech, face, text, EEG, fMRI, and many others. • Explainability of deep Learning algorithms for affective computing. • Multi-task learning techniques for emotion, personality and depression detection, etc. • Novel datasets for affective computing • Applications of affective computing in robots, such as emotion-aware human-robot interaction and social robots, etc.

Book Computational Human Robot Interaction

Download or read book Computational Human Robot Interaction written by Andrea Thomaz and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational Human-Robot Interaction provides the reader with a systematic overview of the field of Human-Robot Interaction over the past decade, with a focus on the computational frameworks, algorithms, techniques, and models currently used to enable robots to interact with humans.