TOWARDS SOCIALLY INTELLIGENT ROBOTS : Can a robot read human emotions?
06 June 2017
As we interact more frequently with voice- and gesture-controlled robots, we expect them to recognize human emotions and understand high-level communication features such as humor, and intention. To make such communication possible, we are developing software that can extract emotional cues from human speech and behavior, and can guide the response of a robot accordingly. We are looking for volunteers to take part in a laboratory study to evaluate our software.
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Ethical approval
The research has been approved by CUI/ISS of University of Geneva.
About the researcher
Christiana Tsiourti is PhD student at the Institute of Service Science of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and a member of the Swiss Doctoral School in Affective Sciences, at the Swiss Center for Affective Science. In November 2016, she has been awarded a Doc.Mobility Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation, allowing her to spend one year as a visiting researcher at the Vision4Robotics group at the ACIN Institute of Automation and Control at Vienna University of Technology (Austria). Christiana holds a Master’s (2011) and Bachelor (2009) in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus (Cyprus). Christiana’s research is focused on the development and evaluation of socially intelligent agents (robots and avatars) that autonomously integrate into our daily life environments and possess social skills, such as the automatic understanding of the user’s actions and emotional states, and the production of coherent emotional feedback.
