Abstract Knowledge production within the interdisciplinary field of human–robot interaction
(HRI) with social robots has accelerated, despite the continued fragmentation of the …

This review investigated research works on affective computing by using electrocardiogram
(ECG) and electrodermal activity (EDA). The 27 related research papers, including 23 from …

Emotion recognition is a strategy for social robots used to implement better Human-Robot
Interaction and model their social behaviour. Since human emotions can be expressed in …

More and more real-world applications, especially in cognitive robotics, require the running
of different computer vision algorithms in parallel on board of embedded devices with limited …

Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by
introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and …

For some years now, the use of social, anthropomorphic robots in various situations has
been on the rise. These are robots developed to interact with humans and are equipped with …

Recently, many studies have shown that integrating multiple modalities can more accurately
and robustly identify human emotions compared with a single modality. However, how to …

Recent work in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has shown that robots can leverage implicit
communicative signals from users to understand how they are being perceived during …

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a field of research with multiple solutions in the state-of-
the-art, focused on fields such as security, marketing or robotics. In the literature, several …

The acquisition of physiological signals for analyzing emotional experiences has been
intrusive, and potentially yields inaccurate results. This study employed infrared thermal …