Including affectivity requirements in embedded systems

This paper proposes an embedded system development process capable to deal with affectivity requirements. It is supported by W3C tools, such as EmotionML and SysML. These tools should be used to specify cognition and affectivity as system requirements. The proposed process is based on three different integration models: Sparx's [1], Wolf's System Development Process [4] and Russell's Intelligent Agent Specification [5]. In order to validate this proposal a pet robot case study has been built. This application can be useful in many non-critical domestic applications, such as assistive robots for capturing attention of autistic children and robot therapy for elders. Moreover, it represents a futuristic embedded system design space for applying affective computing.