An overview
Affective Computing Combined with Android Science
In this report a number of research projects are summarized that aimed at investigating the
emotional effects of android robots. In particular, those robots are focused on that have been
developed and are incessantly being improved by Hiroshi Ishiguro at both the Advanced
Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) in Kyoto and Osaka University in Osaka, Japan. Parts of the reported empirical research have been conducted by the author himself during a two-year research stay at ATR as post-doctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
In summary, the application of Affective Computing methodologies to Android Science research has led to promising results in the study of Human-Robot Interaction.