Naturalistic Pain Synthesis for Virtual Patients

Facial Expression Synthesis on Robots

“…We describe these details in our other work [3], but will summarize briefly here. We extracted source videos of pain, anger, and disgust from the UNBC-McMaster Pain Archive [2] and MMI database [5].…”

“…Using expressions commonly conflated with pain (anger and disgust) enable us to perform a thorough evaluation. Second, we were replicating a pain synthesis study by Riva et al [6,3].…”

“…We selected these expressions for two reasons. First, we are building robotic patient simulator systems, and are thus interested in naturalistic pain synthesis [3]. Using expressions commonly conflated with pain (anger and disgust) enable us to perform a thorough evaluation.…”

Robotics Technology in Mental Health Care

“…We have been researching novel ways to use humanoid robots to train clinicians to better interact with patients during face-to-face interaction (Gonzales, Moosaei, & Riek, 2013;Moosaei, Gonzales, & Riek, 2014;. This work was motivated by the fact that clinicians have been shown to express bias against people with both visible and invisible disabilities, which is thus a pertinent topic for mental health care (Deegan, 1990;Mason & Scior, 2004).…”

Users, Bystanders and Agents: Participation Roles in Human-Agent Interaction

“…[5], [2]) and do not address how to include several human participants simultaneously. This is a striking omission, as standard application scenarios tend to be settings in which other people are likely to be present and thus influence the interaction, as in a museum or clinical settings ( [13], [18]). One exception is the anti-bullying system in [23], in which several agents with different participation roles were created.…”