The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is an objective method for quantifying facial movement in terms of 44 component actions, i.e. Action Units (AUs). This system is widely used...
It is well known that utterances convey a great deal of information about the speaker in addition to their semantic content. One such type of information consists of cues to the s...
Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universall...
We present as a contribution to the field of human-machine interaction a system that analyzes human movements online, based on the concept of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). The im...
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...