Most industrialized countries are aging fast due to an increase of life expectancy and a reduction of child birth rate. There is considerable expectation for a growing need for home, medical, and nursing care services to assist this aging society, both from the physical and psychological points of view. For this purpose, robots, and in particular robots with the appearance based on the human body, are expected to perform human tasks such as providing personal assistance and social care for the elderly, and cognitive therapy, as well as entertainment and education. In particular, emotion is considered to be one of the most important factors that could crucially influence the success or failure of the presence of personal robots in our human community.
In recent years, several robots have been developed to investigate the socio-emotional aspects of human-robot interactions. Among them, we can find animaloid robots, humanoid robots, androids, and even other kinds of robots to explore socio-emotive face-to-face interactions with people to explore face-to-face interactions. The concept behind all these interactive robots is “partnership” Partner robots will act as human peers in everyday life and will provide mental and communicational supports to humans, as well as physical support as mentioned previously. In particular, emotion is considered to be one of the most important factors that could crucially influence the success or failure of communication of robots in our human community.
The development of emotional behavior and emotional models for humanoid robots, however, is still an open issue. This full day workshop will address the current challenges and the future perspectives of emotional humanoid robotics, from perception to expression, including modeling and understanding. It will also address the creation of mental and interaction models, and evaluation metrics for the interaction.
This workshop will offer a unique opportunity of interaction among leading international researchers from a wide range of disciplines, and will provide to those interested in the field of emotional robotics the possibility to spend a full-immersion day with experts and colleagues, to learn and to discuss personally and interactively. |
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