The Maze of Realizing Empathy with Social Robots

Marialejandra Garcia Corretjer, Raquel Ros, Fernando Martin, David Miralles

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    Abstract

    Current trends envisage an evolution of collaboration, engagement, and relationship between humans and devices, intelligent agents and robots in our everyday life. Some of the key elements under study are affective states, motivation, trust, care, and empathy. This paper introduces an empathy test-bed that serves as a case study for an existing empathy model. The model describes the steps that need to occur in the process to provoke meaning in empathy, as well as the variables and elements that contextualise those steps. Based on this approach we have developed a fun collaborative scenario where a user and a social robot work together to solve a maze. A set of exploratory trials are carried out to gather insights on how users perceive the proposed test-bed around attachment and trust, which are basic elements for the realisation of empathy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages1334-1339
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781728160757
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2020
    Event29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020 - Virtual, Naples, Italy
    Duration: 31 Aug 20204 Sept 2020

    Publication series

    Name29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020

    Conference

    Conference29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2020
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    CityVirtual, Naples
    Period31/08/204/09/20

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