Emotirob : from understanding to cognitive interaction

Amel Achour (1) , Marc Le Tallec (2) , Sébastien Saint-Aimé (1) , Brigitte Le Pévédic (1) , Jeanne Villaneau (1) , Jean-Yves Antoine (2) , Dominique Duhaut (1)

1 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient
2 LIFAT - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et Appliquée de Tours

The ANR project EmotiRob aims at conceiving and carrying out a soft toy robot which can interact emotionally and cognitively with handicapped and fragile children. However the project MAPH (Active Media For the Handicap) which is an extension of EmotiRob extends the cognitive abilities of the robot so as to implement linguistic interaction with the child. This article presents our work for both projects: speech understanding, emotional interaction, cognitive interaction.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Amel Achour, Marc Le Tallec, Sébastien Saint-Aimé, Brigitte Le Pévédic, Jeanne Villaneau, et al.. Emotirob : from understanding to cognitive interaction. In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation – ICMA 2008, Aug 2008, Takamutsu, Kagawa, Japan. pp.369--374, ⟨10.1109/ICMA.2008.4798782⟩. ⟨hal-00507537⟩