Can a robot express emotions?
The FACE team research at Centro "E.Piaggio" works on Emotional Human Robot Interaction using human-like robots which embody emotional states, empathy and non-verbal communication.
By means of the Life-like android, FACE (Facial Automation for Conveying Emotions), showing emotional information through facial expressions, the group studies the human robot empathic link.
FACE is part of a complex Human Interaction Persuasive Observation Platform (HIPOP), able to collect synchronized information acquired from different sensors, i.e. physiological, psychological and behavioral data. Thanks to its modularity, HIPOP allows scientists to configure different experiments selecting the number and the type of available modules to follow protocol requirements.
