Advances in Social Robotics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 3461
Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data; data science; parallel and distributed computing; semantic web; mobile and sensing computing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: emotion recognition/synthesis for HRI (multimodal and sensor based); signal processing and control for robotic applications; image/video/speech processing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Social robotics is an active research area in artificial intelligence that deals with the study of robots capable of interacting and communicating with each other, humans, and the environment, respecting social and cultural restrictions as much as possible, while performing their function.
Some challenges in this area include managing the sensory capacity of robots to allow them to gather the information needed for the recognition of human emotions; improving machine learning techniques for social robots; managing different modalities with efficient fusion methods; discovering how DILMO (Distance, Identity, Location, Movement, Orientation) dimensions can be used to improve human–robot interaction (HRI); and elucidating how social robots can be taught social behaviors based on proxemics. This Special Issue aims to enable synergy among these aspects and to provide a space to analyze, present, and discuss the latest research and development issues, as well as propose theoretical foundations for research on combining solutions to develop efficient and suitable solutions for emotion and sentiment detection, including proxemic HRI for social robots.
Dr. Yudith Cardinale
Prof. Dr. Shikha Tripathi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sentiment analysis
- emotion recognition
- multimodal sources
- proxemics
- HRI
- social robots
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