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The paper wants to introduce the concept of Affective Internet of Things (AIoT) where smart objects are empowered with affective capability in terms of abstraction of their emotional state. Moreover each smart object can be associated with a specific ‘personality’. This approach, already used in the field of social robotics, mainly exploits robots' appearance (i.e. anthropomorphism or zoomorphism)...