Should Robots Blush?

Park, Soomi; Healey, Patrick G. T.; Kaniadakis, Antonios

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445561

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“…None. Clark and Fischer (C&F) provide a timely reminder that there is a large and underappreciated gap between the ambitions of social robotics and the actual social competence of robots (Park, Healey, & Kaniadakis, 2021). As they demonstrate, natural conversation presents complex challenges that go well beyond current engineering capabilities (see also Healey, 2021).…”

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Social robots as depictions of social agents

Clark¹,

Fischer²

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if they were actual agents. How is this possible? The proposal here is that people construe social robots not as social agents per se, but as depictions of social agents. They interpret them much as they interpret ventriloquist dummies, hand puppets, virtual assistants, and other interactive depictions of people and animals. Depictions as a class consist of three physical scenes with part-by-part mappings between them: (a) a base scene (the raw physical artifact), (b) the depiction proper (the artifact construed as a depiction), and (c) the scene depicted (the scene people are to imagine). With social robots, evidence shows, people form the same three scenes plus mappings: They perceive the raw machinery of a robot, construe it as a depiction of a character, and, using the depiction as a guide, engage in the pretense that they are interacting with the character depicted. So, with social robots, people also recognize three classes of agents—the characters depicted, the intended recipients of the depictions (those who view or interact with the robots), and the authorities responsible for the robots (the designers, makers, and owners). Construing social robots as depictions, we argue, accounts for many phenomena not covered by alternative models.

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“…Unlike shame, embarrassment also directly implicates other participants in a coordinated understanding of what has failed, how it failed and how to recover from it. Interestingly, robots are not currently designed to systematically recognise or produce signals of embarrassment (Park et al, 2021).…”

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Social robots as depictions of social agents

Clark¹,

Fischer²

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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“…For the response, verbal responses occurred in 38 articles out of 52 while nonverbal responses occurred 27 times. The most-used modality was visuals [39,43,45,47,49,50,[52][53][54][55][56][57]62,63,65,67,71,74,77,83,[89][90][91][92][93]95]-26 out of 52 articles. The second-most used was voice [39,42,46-50, 54,59-62,68,69,72,74,82,83,89,91,94,96,97]-23 out of 52 articles.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For the design and implementation, many groups are similar to the implementation only, as applications [41,49,87], agents [48,54,68,88], products [63,74,89,90], and visualisations [50,89]. For the design, we grouped the articles into behaviour design [75,[91][92][93][94], machine and application design [47,52,56,60,65,69,[95][96][97], visualisations [67], and strategies and approaches [51,64,66].…”

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Empathic and Empathetic Systematic Review to Standardize the Development of Reliable and Sustainable Empathic Systems

Daher

Saad

Mugellini

et al. 2022

Sensors

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Empathy plays a crucial role in human life, and the evolution of technology is affecting the way humans interact with machines. The area of affective computing is attracting considerable interest within the human–computer interaction community. However, the area of empathic interactions has not been explored in depth. This systematic review explores the latest advances in empathic interactions and behaviour. We provide key insights into the exploration, design, implementation, and evaluation of empathic interactions. Data were collected from the CHI conference between 2011 and 2021 to provide an overview of all studies covering empathic and empathetic interactions. Two authors screened and extracted data from a total of 59 articles relevant to this review. The features extracted cover interaction modalities, context understanding, usage fields, goals, and evaluation. The results reported here can be used as a foundation for the future research and development of empathic systems and interfaces and as a starting point for the gaps found.

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“…Expression Expressions, both visual and mental, are an important aspect of viewing SARs as a potential companion, rather than a simple tool, and are therefore important for creating a robot that users want to care for. Showing basic human-like characteristics can help with allowing users to feel that they can understand and relate to a SAR [26]. However, these expressions do not always need to be a direct mirror of human expression.…”

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A Theoretical Framework for the Development of “Needy” Socially Assistive Robots

Jones,

Loizides,

Jones

2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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We suggest a theoretical framework for the design and development of a "needy" socially assistive robot (SAR) for the elderly. Our hypothesis is that a needy SAR will be more readily accepted by those that require them and would result in overall more positive care outcomes when compared to a non needy alternative. This is supported by existing works which indicate traits that can be considered needy are viewed favourably when correctly integrated. We provide guidance on the key design considerations that should be made in order to implement these traits successfully into a SAR. Using this newly created framework we will subsequently proceed to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating a SAR with these traits in a real-world scenario.

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Should Robots Blush?

Cited by 15 publications

References 72 publications

Social robots as depictions of social agents

Social robots as depictions of social agents

Empathic and Empathetic Systematic Review to Standardize the Development of Reliable and Sustainable Empathic Systems

A Theoretical Framework for the Development of “Needy” Socially Assistive Robots

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