Computers and artificial agents become more and more sophisticated every year and more frequently involved in human’s everyday life. This increases the need to interact with them in a more natural way, similar to the way we interact with each other. Museum tour-guide robots (Nourbrakhsh, 1999) and robots that interact with the elderly (Montemerlo, 2002) demonstrate that we do not need robots just to interact with people, but also that there is a need for the interactions to be smooth and natural.
Over the past few decades Emotion-sensitive Human-Computer Interaction has become a hot topic in many scientific papers on affective computing, a popular and innovative AI research area mainly in artificial intelligence which main goal is to develop …show more content…
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There are also applications like google voice search which can recognize speech but only few computers programs really “understand” the exact meaning of the words or the context in which they are …show more content…
Some more work is needed on improving the systems’ automatic interpretation of the collected data and adapting the system to the person involved in the Human-Computer Interaction [1]. Moreover computers must understand the relationship between the different cues such as facial expressions, body language, gestures, the tone of voice to fully understand the human’s emotional state. Other elements should also be taken into account, for example, body movements and the physiological reactions as well as the ethnic origin of the person. However, computer systems are expected not only to recognize the emotions in humans but also to express them. That is why the second ability of the machine must be articulateness and expressiveness. Last but not least in order to have a natural and smooth conversation the computer must generate affectivity and attentiveness in the communication process. Recently, in the robotic community there have been an increase in constructing social robots. (Gockley, 2006). These robots have had various communication channels used entertain humans with an active and affective communication expressing emotions. Some of them are used as an amusement toy like the robot AIBO, others are developed to help the healing process of infants in hospital like the PARO a seal-like robot(Shibata, 2003). A robot called
Over the past few decades Emotion-sensitive Human-Computer Interaction has become a hot topic in many scientific papers on affective computing, a popular and innovative AI research area mainly in artificial intelligence which main goal is to develop …show more content…
[ref][ref]
There are also applications like google voice search which can recognize speech but only few computers programs really “understand” the exact meaning of the words or the context in which they are …show more content…
Some more work is needed on improving the systems’ automatic interpretation of the collected data and adapting the system to the person involved in the Human-Computer Interaction [1]. Moreover computers must understand the relationship between the different cues such as facial expressions, body language, gestures, the tone of voice to fully understand the human’s emotional state. Other elements should also be taken into account, for example, body movements and the physiological reactions as well as the ethnic origin of the person. However, computer systems are expected not only to recognize the emotions in humans but also to express them. That is why the second ability of the machine must be articulateness and expressiveness. Last but not least in order to have a natural and smooth conversation the computer must generate affectivity and attentiveness in the communication process. Recently, in the robotic community there have been an increase in constructing social robots. (Gockley, 2006). These robots have had various communication channels used entertain humans with an active and affective communication expressing emotions. Some of them are used as an amusement toy like the robot AIBO, others are developed to help the healing process of infants in hospital like the PARO a seal-like robot(Shibata, 2003). A robot called