Autistic children are increasingly a focus of technology research within the Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI) community. We provide a critical review of the purposes of these …

Purpose Technological advances in robotics have brought about exciting developments in
different areas such as education, training, and therapy. Recent research has suggested that …

We present a systematic survey of computational research in humanrobot interaction (HRI)
over the past decade. Computational HRI is the subset of the field that is specifically …

Humanoid social robots have an increasingly prominent place in today's world. Their
acceptance in social and emotional human–robot interaction (HRI) scenarios depends on …

Participating in interaction requires not only coordination on content and process, as
previously proposed, but also on affect. The term affective grounding is introduced to refer to …

Facial expressions are an ideal means of communicating one's emotions or intentions to
others. This overview will focus on human facial expression recognition as well as robotic …

In this paper we present the results of our recent study on comparing the emotion expression
recognition abilities of children diagnosed with high functioning Autism (ASD) with those of …

Gestures, a form of body language, significantly influence how users perceive humanoid
robots. Recent data-driven methods for co-speech gestures have successfully enhanced the …

Facial expressions are of utmost importance in social interactions, allowing communicative
prompts for a speaking turn and feedback. Nevertheless, not all have the ability to express …

Emotional expressiveness in robots has attracted increased research interest, and
development of this technology has progressed in recent years. A wide variety of methods …