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Table 5 Gestural sequences with agreement among evaluators and their corresponding SIRE values

From: Towards expressive musical robots: a cross-modal framework for emotional gesture, voice and music

Emotion

Human voice (%)

Robot gesture (%)

Robot music (%)

S

I

R

E

Happiness

43

62

6

0.72

0.2

0.22

0.73

Sadness

95

76

76

0.12

0.44

0.72

0.42

Anger

95

86

27

0.71

0.46

0.04

0.73

Fear

33

43

53

0.95

1

0.13

0.37

  1. Low scores for happiness and anger in music may be explained by the difficulty of the musical instrument (theremin) to express these emotions in general.