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Emotion expression is one of the characteristics that make us social beings. It is one of the main forms, along with oral and written language, that gives us a glimpse into the inner mental state of another individual. One of the aims of social robotics is the effortless communication between humans and robots. To achieve this goal, robotic emotional expression is a key ability, as it offers a more natural way to interact in a human-robot environment. In this paper a system to express the emotional content of a spoken text is presented. Head and arms movements, along with eye LED lighting and voice intonation are combined to make a humanoid robot express the sadness-happiness emotion continuum. The robot is able to express the emotional meaning of texts in English, Spanish and Basque languages.
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This work has been partially supported by the Basque Government (IT900-16), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO/FEDER (TIN 2015-64395-R, MINECO/FEDER,EU). Author Rodriguez has received the UPV/EHU research Grant PIF13/104.
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Rodriguez, I., Martínez-Otzeta, J.M., Lazkano, E., Ruiz, T. (2017). Adaptive Emotional Chatting Behavior to Increase the Sociability of Robots. In: Kheddar, A., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10652. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_66
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