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  • Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Psychology
  • Linguistics

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  • Successful human-robot interaction necessitates robots capable of perceiving and responding to human emotions.
  • Emotion recognition in robots relies on analyzing behavioral expressions and body activity features.
  • Cross-cultural variations in emotion expression require adaptable emotion recognition systems for robots.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate and compare the feature profiles of joy, sadness, fear, and anger in Polish and British English.
  • To determine the extent of cultural tuning required for emotion recognition systems in robots.
  • To inform the development of emotionally competent robots for diverse cultural contexts.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the GRID instrument and cognitive corpus linguistics methodology for a contrastive analysis.
  • Analyzed behavioral expression and body activity features associated with four core emotions.
  • Compared emotion feature profiles within and between Polish and British English speakers.

Main Results:

  • Identified intra-linguistic differences in the feature profiles of emotions within both Polish and British English.
  • Revealed cross-cultural variations in the expression of joy, sadness, fear, and anger.
  • Demonstrated that emotion feature profiles differ across cultures.

Conclusions:

  • Weightings derived from intra-linguistic emotion feature profiles can enhance robotic emotion recognition.
  • Cross-cultural tuning of emotion feature recognition systems is essential for robot emotional competence.
  • Robots must be adapted to specific cultural contexts to achieve effective social interaction.