In the context of our research activities on affective computing and human-robot interaction we are working on both the recognition of human's emotions and the expression of emotions by robots. In our vision, robots will be increasingly present in schools, factories, and homes, and their empathetic behavior may foster their acceptance. In particular, in one of our research, we sought to replicate gestures associated with specific emotions on a social robot, NAO. Our focus was on Ekman's six primary emotions, along with five emotions selected from Plutchik's wheel of emotions. In our opinion the cultural component linked to the expression of emotions through gestures certainly influenced both us and the participants. Thus, we would like to investigate the influence of our culture in the gestural expression of emotion.

翻译：在我们的情感计算与人机交互研究活动中，我们致力于人类情感识别与机器人情感表达两个方面。我们预见，机器人将越来越多地出现在学校、工厂和家庭中，而它们的情感共鸣行为可能有助于提升人类对机器人的接纳度。在一项具体研究中，我们尝试在社会型机器人NAO上复现与特定情感关联的手势。研究聚焦于埃克曼提出的六种基本情感，及从普拉奇克情感轮盘中选取的另外五种情感。我们认为，通过手势表达情感所涉及的文化因素必然同时影响了研究人员与实验参与者。因此，我们期望进一步探究自身文化在基于手势的情感表达中所产生的影响。