About the editors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About the editors ix
4. List of contributors xi
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. Social emotions 1
7. 2. Fabricating fictions using social role 21
8. 3. What's in a robot's smile? The many meanings of positive facial display 37
9. 4. Facial expressions in social interactions: Beyond basic emotions 53
10. 5. Expressing emotion through body movement: A component process approach 71
11. 6. Affective bodies for affective interactions 87
12. 7. Animating affective robots for social interaction 103
13. 8. Dynamic models of multiple emotion activation 123
14. 9. Exercises in style for virtual humans 143
15. 10. Expressive characters in anti-bullying education 161
16. 11. Psychological and social effects to elderly people by robot-assisted activity 177
17. 12. Designing avatars for social interactions 195
18. 13. Applying socio-psychological concepts of cognitive consistency to negotiation dialog scenarios with embodied conversational characters 213
19. 14. Semi-autonomous avatars: A new direction for expressive user embodiment 235
20. 15. The Butterfly effect: Dancing with real and virtual expressive characters 257
21. 16. The robot and the baby 279
22. Subject index 293