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(1) Emma Hughson, Roya Javadi, Angelica Lim. Investigating the Role of Culture on Negative Emotional Expressions in the Wild.

(2) Janderson Ferreira, Agostinho A. F. Júnior, Yves M. Galvão, Bruno J. T. Fernandes. Empathy Path Planning.

(3) Leandro H. de S. Silva, Letícia Portela, Nathália R. C. da Silva, Agostinho A. F. Júnior, Bruno J. T. Fernandes. Non-verbal communication empathy assessment using extended OMG-Empathy dataset.

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(1) Xiaojing Xu, Virginia R. de Sa. Pain Evaluation in Video using Extended Multitask Learning from Multidimensional Measurements.

(2) Kumar T. Rajamani, Srividya Rajamani. An Enhanced Speech Emotion Recognition System using Attention Network.

(3) Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea and Alessandra Sciutti. Shared perception in mutual visual orienting: A comparative study.

(4) Yuchou Chang. Human-Robot Shared Perception for Categorizing Object via Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis.

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Welcome to the Worshop on Affective Shared Perception!

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Ginevra Castellano is a Professor in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, where she leads the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab. Her research interests are in the areas of social robotics and affective computing, and include social learning, personalized adaptive robots, multimodal behaviours and uncanny valley effect in robots and virtual agents. She has published more than 100 research papers on these topics, receiving over 3000 citations. She was the coordinator of the EU FP7 EMOTE (EMbOdied-perceptive Tutors for Empathy-based learning) project (2012-2016). She is the recipient of a Swedish Research Council starting grant (2016-2020) and PI for Uppsala University of the EU Horizon 2020 ANIMATAS (Advancing intuitive human-machine interaction with human-like social capabilities for education in schools; 2018-2021) project, the COIN (Co-adaptive human-robot interactive systems) project, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (2016-2021), and the project "The ethics and social consequences of AI & caring robots. Learning trust, empathy, and accountability" (2020-2024), supported by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden. Castellano was a general co-chair at IVA 2017. She is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Human-Robot Interaction section, and IEEE Transactions in Affective Computing. Castellano is a recipient of the 10-Year Technical Impact Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 2019.

Talk Title: Investigating People's Affective Responses to Robots

The recently published EU guidelines for trustworthy AI warn of the need to study
the social impact of AI systems integrated in all areas of our lives.
AI systems such as robots in socially assistive roles can impact people's social relationships and attachment,
so one important area of investigation is the study of how people emotionally respond to robots.
One question that I address in my research is how a robot's human-likeness in appearance and behaviour
influences people's affective perceptions and affective responses to robots.
I present two studies investigating people's affective perceptions and affective responses to robots displaying emotional and empathic behaviour.
I show that, in experiments with a mixed embodiment robot, human likeness seems to affect high and low level affective responses
in different ways. I also show that people are able to understand human-like and robot-specific empathic traits in a robot.
This work contributes to addressing a key question for ethical and trustworthy AI and robotics: when do people empathise and socially connect with robots?

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Ginevra Castellano is a Professor in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, where she leads the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab. Her research interests are in the areas of social robotics and affective computing, and include social learning, personalized adaptive robots, multimodal behaviours and uncanny valley effect in robots and virtual agents.

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For M. Matarese: How does the attention localisation module work?

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For M. Matarese: How does the attention localisation module work?

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(1) Justin Heer, Jie Yan, Angelica Lim. Joyful or Nervous? A Dataset of Awkward, Embarrassed and Uncomfortable Smiles.

(2) Nikoletta Xirakia, Tayfun Alpay, Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter. Multimodal Integration for Empathy Recognition.

(3) Matthias Kerzel and Stefan Wermter. Towards a Data Generation Framework for Affective Shared Perception and Social Cue Learning Using Virtual Avatars?

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(1) Bukowski H. Tik M., Silani G., Ruff C.C., Windischberger C., & Lamm C.. From shared to distinct affects via rTMS/fMRI combined: Neuroenhancement of self-other distinction in empathy depends on dispositional empathic understanding.

(2) Stefano Rovetta, Zied Mnasri, Francesco Masulli, Alberto Cabri. Emotion detection from speech in dialog systems: advances and challenges.

(3) Finn Rietz, Alexander Sutherland, Suna Bensch, Stefan Wermter, Thomas Hellstr. WoZ4U: An Open Source Wizard-of-Oz Interface for the Pepper robot.

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For (3): Really nice work! How did you model the intention module?

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For (3): Really nice work! How did you model the intention module?

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Marco Matarese

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Janderson Ferreira

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Angel over here

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Do you forsee any substantial change in the model to characterize elderly perceptual behavior?

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Do you forsee any substantial change in the model to characterize elderly perceptual behavior?

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Have you explored the influence of executive functioning ?

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Difference between learning predictive coding for adults and children?

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Difference between learning predictive coding for adults and children?

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Paul Hemeren

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how could the mechanism of hypo priors be carried to the action-perception loop in robots?

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will Dr. Nagai's keynote talk be available on the youtube channel as well?

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will Dr. Nagai's keynote talk be available on the youtube channel as well?

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The idea of studying the effect of social context on neurotrasmitters is very interesting. Are you planning to study only dopamine or also other neurotrasmitters (e.g. serotonin)?

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The idea of studying the effect of social context on neurotrasmitters is very interesting. Are you planning to study only dopamine or also other neurotrasmitters (e.g. serotonin)?

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Fabrizio Leo

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In case of a robot learning a task do you think it would be useful and possible to find the best level of prior knowledge the robot should use in the task? And how?

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In case of a robot learning a task do you think it would be useful and possible to find the best level of prior knowledge the robot should use in the task? And how?

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Carlo Mazzola

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Just a comment: the hyperparameter H seems temperature in free-energy hypothesis.

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Just a comment: the hyperparameter H seems temperature in free-energy hypothesis.

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Koichi Hayakawa

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You mentioned the social interaction might increase the dopamine. Do you have a hypothesis for the neural mechanism for this? For example, recognition of the face or eye contact in neocortex might stimulate VTA to produce more dompamine.

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In Patricia Kuhl's experiment on the "Is Speech learning gated by the social brain?" She reports an experiment where babies interacting with humans develop language, while babies watching the recording of the tutors cannot.

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Thank you for the presentation!
I would like to know how did you model the comfortability of a path.

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For (1) which other expressions you believe should be considered beyond smile to detect a negative reaction in the partner?

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For (1) which other expressions you believe should be considered beyond smile to detect a negative reaction in the partner?

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How does the predictive coding framework handle multi-modal sensory inputs? Did you experiments deal with multimodal signals, or focused on a single modality, eg vision?

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Did you consider the impact of the prior for the same activity but with different people (consequently, different behaviors)?

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For (2), what is the intuition behind using the SkipRNN?

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For (2), what is the intuition behind using the SkipRNN?

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For (1) is there a particular reason for choosing a softmax activation function instead of a sigmoid, since the classification was binary?

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For (1) is there a particular reason for choosing a softmax activation function instead of a sigmoid, since the classification was binary?

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for (1) - in your future work, how would you extract information regarding the scene context?

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Have you taken meassures (maybe some form of domain randomization) to mitigate overfitting to the generated blender visuals?

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Does personalization take a role in this scenario?Adapting for each individual capabilities?Or in this scenario, a common and more general goal is necessary?If so, how do adapt the solution towards personalization?

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Does personalization take a role in this scenario?Adapting for each individual capabilities?Or in this scenario, a common and more general goal is necessary?If so, how do adapt the solution towards personalization?

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Do you believe that such type of training could be helpful for other clinical populations?

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Do you believe that such type of training could be helpful for other clinical populations?

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Do you plan to study group training sessions? Do you think they could improve the individual outcomes?

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Do you plan to study group training sessions? Do you think they could improve the individual outcomes?

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For (4) you are currently leveraging EEG and robot vision. Are you considering also using other proxy of human vision?

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For (4) you are currently leveraging EEG and robot vision. Are you considering also using other proxy of human vision?

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For (1) How would you believe the self-other distinction generalizes to interaction with other agents (e.g. robots)? Could this actually end up undermining empathy?

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For (1) How would you believe the self-other distinction generalizes to interaction with other agents (e.g. robots)? Could this actually end up undermining empathy?

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For (3) question by Murat Kirtay (from the chat)

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For (3) question by Murat Kirtay (from the chat)

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Thanks for the presentation.Is there a public repository for the Pepper GUI?It would be great if you can share the repository.

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For (2) are you considering integrating multimodal information, beyond speech alone, to increase consistency in emotion detection?

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For (2) are you considering integrating multimodal information, beyond speech alone, to increase consistency in emotion detection?

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Empathic behaviour could be applied as effectively in adult-robot interaction?

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Empathic behaviour could be applied as effectively in adult-robot interaction?

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To achieve such general empathic behavior, must the robot, or agent, also have its own intrinsic modeling of emotions, motivation, creativity...?

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i have a question for the second study you presented with the empathic tutor - you mentioned also personalization and adaptation in the interaction, on which modality is this done in the interaction?
Ana Tanevska

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Do you think appearance is key? Or more higher-level characteristics, like intentionality, are required? 

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Do you think appearance is key? Or more higher-level characteristics, like intentionality, are required? 