Communicating emotions in robotics: Towards a model of emotional alignment

The expectations of emotional displays play an important role in human-human and human-robot interaction in order to achieve a constructive interaction. However, as we argue in this position paper, current state-of-the-art social robotic models of emotion still neglect the communicational aspects of emotions. Based on different psychological models of emotion, we argue that an intra-personal account of emotion is not sufficient. Rather, we need inter-personal accounts of emotion that go beyond the assumption that a communicative agent simply displays her internal affective state and takes situational aspects into account that influence the emotional display.

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