Transitions to manual control from highly automated driving in non-critical truck platooning scenarios

Automated truck platooning is getting an increasing interest for its potentially beneficial effects on fuel consumption, driver workload, traffic flow efficiency, and safety. Nevertheless, one major challenge lies in the safe and comfortable transitions of control from the automated system back to the human drivers, especially when they have...

Effects of bodily mood expression of a robotic teacher on students

This paper reports our investigation into the effects of bodily mood expression of a humanoid robot in a scenario close to real life. To this end, we used the NAO robot to perform as a lecturer in a university class. To display either a positive or a negative mood, we modulated 41 co-verbal gestures by adjusting behavior parameters that control...

Mood Effects of a Robotic Teacher on Students: Bodily Mood Expression Makes a Difference in the Classroom

Real-time Classification of Gorilla Video Segments in Affective Categories Using Crowd-Sourced Annotations

In this contribution we present a method to classify segments of gorilla videos1 in different affective categories. The classification method is trained by crowd sourcing affective annotation. The trained classification then uses video features (computed from the video segments) to classify a new video segment into one of different affective...