A key factor of a successful Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is the robot's ability to understand the messages transmitted by a human user, especially their nonverbal and paraverbal components. Our work focuses on the robot's ability to detect if a person is deceitful or honest, based on an evaluation of their physiological state and using only noninvasive techniques, such as thermal and RGB-D imaging. In particular, we currently study and evaluate several physiological manifestations during an experiment consisting of an interrogation conducted by a robot that follows a mockup crime, then correlate them with the truth values of the participants' answers. The first results are promising.
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