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Cloud-assisted hugtive robot for affective interaction

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Owing to the quickening pace and increasing pressure of daily life, people pay more and more attention to life in spiritual level. However, the time for meeting relatives or friends in person is quite short, therefore, it is more and more important for remote emotional communication (i.e., emotional perception and interaction) between users. The existing remote interaction systems mainly pay attention to voice and video communication, and it is difficult to meet the emotional needs of people. How to realize remote emotional communication between different people still faces challenge. In order to cope with this challenge, cloud-assisted hugtive robot (CH-Robot) system is designed in this paper. More specifically, firstly a new-type hugtive robot is designed. Secondly data collected by smart phone and smart clothing are adopted to judge emotional status of user, then emotional communication between users is realized through CH-Robot. Finally, a specific application scene is presented where a mother who is on business in other places comforts her child at home, thus to verify feasibility and effectiveness of the system.

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This work is supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 61572220).

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    Ping Zhou, Yixue Hao, Jun Yang, Wei Li, Lu Wang, Yiming Miao & Jeungeun Song

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Zhou, P., Hao, Y., Yang, J. et al. Cloud-assisted hugtive robot for affective interaction. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 10839–10854 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3849-5

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