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More than the Modeling of Emotions: A Foreword

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In this work I am providing comments on some important factors that must be accounted for when robotics comes near to the human body, as in the case of wearable robots. In addition to well-known socio-demographic factors such as sex/gender, age, ethnicity, skin color and emotional and culturally-determined sense of personal space, characteristics of health professionals and caregivers, here I stress the necessity to take into account also fashion and the questions raised by it.

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Fortunati, L. (2016). More than the Modeling of Emotions: A Foreword. In: Esposito, A., Jain, L. (eds) Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I . Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31056-5_1

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