Empathy is a basic emotion trigger for human beings, especially while regulating social relationships and behaviour. The main challenge of this paper is study whether people's empathic reactions towards robots change depending on previous information given to human about the robot before the...

Human emotions and social processes are evolutionary intertwined, as the result of neuromodulatory mechanisms that define the nature of how bodies interact with the world and create strategies with other bodies and agents. This article presents the previous simulations of TPR, TPR 2.0 and The...

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Section 1. Recognizing Emotions -- 1. Emotional Modeling in an Interactive Robotic Head -- 2. Automatic Detection of Emotion in Music: Interaction with Emotionally Sensitive Machines -- 3. Facial Expression Analysis, Modeling and Synthesis: Overcoming the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence...