Special issue on robot and human interactive communication

1 Introduction to the Special Issue on Gaze in Human Robot Communication

Advancements in robot design and supporting technologies such as computer vision and speech recognition increasingly enable robots to interact with humans in a robust and natural manner. These interaction capabilities place new expectations on robots to correctly produce and interpret social behaviors that humans use in face-to-face communication. One of the most salient behaviors that this typ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...

Interactive Emotion Communication between Human and Robot

In this paper, we aim to realize the bidirectional communication that a human and a robot perform the face to face interaction based on the behavior with emotion. A model of “Interactive Emotion Communication” (IEC) is proposed in this paper. This model is a kind of interactive process that a robot infers human emotions from human behavior and generates robot emotions. In addition, we evaluated...

Special Issue on Autonomous Robot Systems

This special issue includes extended versions of selected papers presented in the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems (Robotica 2013), held in Lisbon, Portugal, on April 24th 2013, an international event co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Society and organized by the Portuguese Society for Robotics together with the Portuguese Robotics Open. The conference had a ...