Modelling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children an ethnographic study in real-world settings

The idea of autonomous social robots capable of assisting us in our daily lives is becoming more real every day. However, there are still many open issues regarding the social capabilities that those robots should have in order to make daily interactions with humans more natural. For example, the ro...

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Vydáno v:2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) s. 367 - 374
Hlavní autoři: Leite, Iolanda, Castellano, Ginevra, Pereira, André, Martinho, Carlos, Paiva, Ana
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY, USA ACM 05.03.2012
IEEE
Edice:ACM Conferences
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ISBN:145031063X, 9781450310635
ISSN:2167-2121
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Shrnutí:The idea of autonomous social robots capable of assisting us in our daily lives is becoming more real every day. However, there are still many open issues regarding the social capabilities that those robots should have in order to make daily interactions with humans more natural. For example, the role of affective interactions is still unclear. This paper presents an ethnographic study conducted in an elementary school where 40 children interacted with a social robot capable of recognising and responding empathically to some of the children's affective states. The findings suggest that the robot's empathic behaviour affected positively how children perceived the robot. However, the empathic behaviours should be selected carefully, under the risk of having the opposite effect. The target application scenario and the particular preferences of children seem to influence the degree of empathy that social robots should be endowed with.
ISBN:145031063X
9781450310635
ISSN:2167-2121
DOI:10.1145/2157689.2157811