%0 Conference Paper %B Proc. 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011) %D 2011 %T Children Interpretation of Emotional Body Language Displayed by a Robot %A Aryel Beck %A Lola Cañamero %A Luisa Damiano %A Sommavilla, Giacomo %A Tesser, Fabio %A Cosi, Piero %X Previous results show that adults are able to interpret different key poses displayed by the robot and also that changing the head position affects the expressiveness of the key poses in a consistent way. Moving the head down leads to decreased arousal (the level of energy), valence (positive or negative) and stance (approaching or avoiding) whereas moving the head up produces an increase along these dimensions [1]. Hence, changing the head position during an interaction should send intuitive signals which could be used during an interaction. The ALIZ-E target group are children between the age of 8 and 11. Existing results suggest that they would be able to interpret human emotional body language [2, 3]. Based on these results, an experiment was conducted to test whether the results of [1] can be applied to children. If yes body postures and head position could be used to convey emotions during an interaction. %B Proc. 3rd International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011) %I Springer %C Amsterdam, The Netherlands %P 62–70 %@ 978-3-642-25504-5 %G eng %U https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-25504-5_7 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-25504-5_7 %0 Conference Paper %B International Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology %D 2010 %T Constructing Emotions: Epistemological Groundings and Applications in Robotics for a Synthetic Approach to Emotions %A Luisa Damiano %A Lola Cañamero %E Jackie Chappell %E Susannah Thorpe %E Nick Hawes %E Aaron Sloman %X Can the sciences of the artificial positively contribute to the scientific exploration of life and cognition? Can they actually improve the scientific knowledge of natural living and cognitive processes, from biological metabolism to reproduction, from conceptual mapping of the environment to logic reasoning, language, or even emotional expression? To these kinds of questions our article aims to answer in the affirmative. Its main object is the scientific emergent methodology often called the “synthetic approach”, which promotes the programmatic production of embodied and situated models of living and cognitive systems in order to explore aspects of life and cognition not accessible in natural systems and scenarios. The first part of this article presents and discusses the synthetic approach, and proposes an epistemological framework which promises to warrant genuine transmission of knowledge from the sciences of the artificial to the sciences of the natural. The second part of this article looks at the research applying the synthetic approach to the psychological study of emotional development. It shows how robotics, through the synthetic methodology, can develop a particular perspective on emotions, coherent with current psychological theories of emotional development and fitting well with the recent “cognitive extension” approach proposed by cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind. %B International Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology %I The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour %C De Montford University, Leicester, UK %P 20–28 %@ 1902956923 %G eng %U http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/aiib/Symposium_6/Papers/Damiano.pdf