What Do You Care About: Inferring Values from Emotions

TL;DR

This paper proposes a formal model enabling agents to infer human values from emotional expressions, enhancing social interaction and personalization in human-robot interaction.

Contribution

It introduces a novel methodology for modeling how agents can deduce values from observed emotional expressions.

Findings

Developed a formal inference model for values from emotions

Facilitates more socially aware artificial agents

Supports personalized human-robot interactions

Abstract

Observers can glean information from others' emotional expressions through the act of drawing inferences from another individual's emotional expressions. It is important for socially aware artificial systems to be capable of doing that as it can facilitate social interaction among agents, and is particularly important in human-robot interaction for supporting a more personalized treatment of users. In this short paper, we propose a methodology for developing a formal model that allows agents to infer another agent's values from her emotion expressions.