In the last years, considerable research has been carried out to develop robots that can
improve our quality of life during tedious and challenging tasks. In these contexts, robots …

Research on affective communication for socially assistive robots has been conducted to
enable physical robots to perceive, express, and respond emotionally. However, the use of …

Decades of scientific research have been conducted on developing and evaluating methods
for automated emotion recognition. With exponentially growing technology, there is a wide …

This article explores the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on interactions
between social actors and technological processes. The aim is to locate social actors in the …

Abstract Service robotics is an important field of research for the development of assistive
technologies. Particularly, humanoid robots will play an increasing and important role in our …

For robots to plan their actions autonomously and interact with people, recognizing human
emotions is crucial. For most humans nonverbal cues such as pitch, loudness, spectrum …

Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) is a challenging component of human-
computer interaction (HCI). Existing literatures mainly focus on evaluating the SER …

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of “Cultural Robotics” with regard to the
evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture …

The decisions made by social robots while they fulfill their tasks have a strong influence on
their performance. In these contexts, autonomous social robots must exhibit adaptive and …

Incremental advancements in technology present researchers with opportunities to examine
and predict human behavior before the integration of technology into daily life. Previous …