[Emotional and social robots for care, ethical challenges and issues].

The arrival of robots in our society often arouses fantasies and fears. Emotional and social robots are already being used in healthcare. Ethical analysis is necessary to regulate the use of these objects which are able to simulate dialogues, appearing to feel emotions and to be capable of learning.

Global stress response during a social stress test: impact of alexithymia and its subfactors.

Objectives: Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying, describing and communicating one's own emotions. Recent studies have associated specific effects of this trait and its subfactors with hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis markers during stress. The aim of this study was to analyze the association between alexithymia and its subfactors with HPA and sympatho-adrenal medullar (SAM) activity.

Challenges in real-life emotion annotation and machine learning based detection.

Since the early studies of human behavior, emotion has attracted the interest of researchers in many disciplines of Neurosciences and Psychology. More recently, it is a growing field of research in computer science and machine learning. We are exploring how the expression of emotion is perceived by listeners and how to represent and automatically detect a subject's emotional state in speech.