Modelling Empathy in Social Robotic Companions

Title	Modelling Empathy in Social Robotic Companions
Publication Type	Book Chapter
Year of Publication	2012
Authors	Leite I, Pereira A, Castellano G, Mascarenhas S, Martinho C, Paiva A
Refereed Designation	Refereed
Book Title	Advances in User Modeling
Series Title	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	7138
Pagination	135-147
Publisher	Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISBN Number	978-3-642-28508-0
Keywords	Empathy, icat, lirec
Abstract	Empathy can be broadly defined as the ability to understand and respond appropriately to the affective states of others. In this paper, we present a scenario where a social robot acts as a chess companion for children, and describe our current efforts towards endowing such robot with empathic capabilities. A multimodal framework for modeling some of the user’s affective states that combines visual and task-related features is presented. Using this model of the user, we personalise the learning environment by adapting the robot’s empathic responses to the particular preferences of the child who is interacting with the robot. We also describe a preliminary study conducted in this scenario.
URL	http://dl.lirec.org/papers/Leite.et.al-LNCS2012.pdf

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