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Pantic, & Scherer, 2011), robotics including companion robots (Khooshabeh, Gratch, Haung, & Tao, 2010; Koda, Ruttkay, Nakagawa, & Tabuchi, 2010; Rehm, Nakano, Koda, & Winschiers-Theophilus, 2012; Trovato, Kishi, Endo, Hashimoto, & Takanishi, 2012; Wang, Rau, Evers, Robinson, & Hinds, 2010), and computer science (Fu, Yang, & Kuai, 2012; Tinwell, Grimshaw, Nabi, & Williams, 2011; Vinciarelli, Pantic, & Bourlard, 2009). As a result, modern approaches to examining emotion communication are characterized by increasingly sophisticated methods that combine knowledge and techniques imported from complementary fields (e.g., Chiao & Blizinsky, 2010; Jack, Garrod, Yu, Caldara, & Schyns, 2012; Martinez & Du, 2012; Susskind et al., 2008).