Introduction to the special issue on affective interaction in natural environments

In this paper, we propose the method for expressing emotion for the emotional robot through the affective stimuli such as 'hit,' 'stoke,' 'tickle,' 'poke,' 'embrace,' etc. We developed the experiment platform, KOBIE, for experiment the emotion expression ...

Affective interaction between a user and a virtual agent must be believable. The virtual actor has to behave properly, to have the capacity to talk in natural language and to express some affectivity. For achieving this goal, it is basic to provide the ...

This paper deals with the haptic affective social interaction during a greeting handshaking between a human and a humanoid robot. The goal of this work is to study how the haptic interaction conveys emotions, and more precisely, how it in'uences the ...