This paper presents our work in progress in the field of emotional synthesis for psychological and physiological enrichement applied to children with mental or physical deaseases. We present a robot, MAPH, wich should be able to entertain affective relationship with children by using speech and emotional synthesis capabilities. Then we present a way to create an emotional face. This face will combine emotional richness of facial expressions with a simple mechanical design. Testing and evaluating different faces will provide us a way to design the face that best fits to the robot MAPH.
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