As we develop interactive systems involving computational models of creativity, issues
around our interaction with these systems will become increasingly important. In particular …

Virtual reality (VR) and social robotics have mutual benefits. VR offers a rich instrumented
and manipulable environment in which robots and people can physically interact. It also …

We are integrating artificial intelligent agents with generic animation systems in order to
provide socially interactive robots with expressive behavior defined by animation artists …

Creativity as we know it, is relatively new to our culture but it has permeated a large variety
of fields. Social robotics research is no exception. One of the main approaches towards …

In this talk, I will discuss two key challenges we face when designing both the body and the
mind of the interactive humanoid robots, giving as example the Robota project. I will first …

Social robots are on the brink of entering our lives. However, little knowledge is available
about how best to design them. This introductory chapter discusses the real-life social robots …

Telling a story requires the internal interrogation and reassembly of our memories of situated
actions in past events. Expressing those actions in a context of embodied story-telling often …

This paper focuses on the role of emotion and expressive behavior in regulating social
interaction between humans and expressive anthropomorphic robots, either in …

Storytelling bears great potential as prospective application for social robots. Through their
embodiment and potential for multi-modal behavior, they can enhance current storytelling …

An important aspect of transparency is enabling a user to understand what a robot might do
in different circumstances. An elderly person might be very unsure about robots, so it is …