Robots are more and more present in our daily life; they have to move into human-centered
environments, to interact with humans, and to obey some social rules so as to produce an …

In human–robot interaction scenarios, an intelligent robot should be able to synthesize an
appropriate behavior adapted to human profile (ie, personality). Recent research studies …

Successful social robot services depend on how robots can interact with users. The effective
service can be obtained through smooth, engaged, and humanoid interactions in which …

The way we interact with computers has significantly changed over recent decades.
However, interaction with computers still falls behind human to human interaction in terms of …

The human gestures occur spontaneously and usually they are aligned with speech, which
leads to a natural and expressive interaction. Speech-driven gesture generation is important …

This paper reports on work that explores natural gesture inputs from end-users for television
use in a typical living room setting. First, we derive a set of 19 user-defined freehand …

In human-human interaction, three modalities of communication (ie, verbal, nonverbal, and
paraverbal) are naturally coordinated so as to enhance the meaning of the conveyed …

Humanoid robots are already among us and they are beginning to assume more social and
personal roles, like guiding and assisting people. Thus, they should interact in a human …

Creating a convincing affective robot behavior is a challenging task. In this paper, we are
trying to coordinate between different modalities of communication: speech, facial …

Social robots should understand the user's nonverbal behavior and respond appropriately.
Machine learning is one way of implementing the social intelligence. It provides the ability to …