Video Behavior Profiling for Anomaly Detection
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Survey of Affect Recognition Methods: Audio, Visual, and Spontaneous Expressions
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Evaluating Perception of Interaction Initiation in Virtual Environments using Humanoid Agents
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 29 -- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy
A Socially-Aware Memory for Companion Agents
IVA '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
An exploration of user engagement in HCI
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Affective-Aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots
Towards affect sensitive and socially perceptive companions
Your Virtual Butler
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Robots acting as assistants or companions in a social environment must be capable of sensing information about the location of the users and analysing and interpreting their social, affective signals in order to be able to plan and generate an appropriate response. Social perception abilities are thereby very important for the robot to evaluate whether it is appropriate or not to initiate an interaction with the user. In this paper we present the initial steps of the design of a ubiquitous social perception system for interaction initiation: users' social signals and expressive behaviour are analysed at different spatial locations and temporal instants. We propose an approach to evaluate whether it is appropriate for a robot to initiate an interaction with the user. We describe an autonomous algorithm to regulate the inter-entity distance between the robot and a person using visual face detection which can be used during interaction initiation and also discuss the role of memory abilities to remember what has happened throughout the interaction.