**Gholamreza Anbarjafari** iCV Research Lab Institute of Technology University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

**Sergio Escalera** Computer Vision Center and University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain

**Section 1**

**Social and Affective Robotics**

**Social and Affective Robotics**

**Chapter 1**

Provisional chapter

**Socially Believable Robots**

Socially Believable Robots

Momina Moetesum and Imran Siddiqi

Momina Moetesum and Imran Siddiqi

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.71375

Abstract

behaviors and actions.

1. Introduction

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Long-term companionship, emotional attachment and realistic interaction with robots have always been the ultimate sign of technological advancement projected by sci-fi literature and entertainment industry. With the advent of artificial intelligence, we have indeed stepped into an era of socially believable robots or humanoids. Affective computing has enabled the deployment of emotional or social robots to a certain level in social settings like informatics, customer services and health care. Nevertheless, social believability of a robot is communicated through its physical embodiment and natural expressiveness. With each passing year, innovations in chemical and mechanical engineering have facilitated life-like embodiments of robotics; however, still much work is required for developing a "social intelligence" in a robot in order to maintain the illusion of dealing with a real human being. This chapter is a collection of research studies on the modeling of complex autonomous systems. It will further shed light on how different social settings require different levels of social intelligence and what are the implications of integrating a socially and emotionally believable machine in a society driven by

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71375

Keywords: social robots, human computer interaction, social intelligence, cognitive

Robots have been an important part of the industrial setups around the globe for many years now. For many industrial operations, robots have completely or partially replaced the human operators and their involvement is likely to grow manifolds in the years to come. Nevertheless, in most cases, these robots operate in a controlled work environment and their interaction with humans remains fairly limited. The recent advancements in the hardware (actuators, sensors, etc.) and software technologies (computer vision, artificial intelligence, etc.), however, have paved way for involvement of robots in our daily life, both at work place and home. Such

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systems, anthropomorphism, humanoids, roboethics
