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HRI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of ...
Laurel D. Riek, Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, Bhismadev Ch...
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...
Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pe...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
"Seeing like a rover": embodied experience on the mars exploration rover mission
Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy...
Janet Vertesi
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
How robot morphology and training order affect the learning of multiple behaviors
— Automatically synthesizing behaviors for robots with articulated bodies poses a number of challenges beyond those encountered when generating behaviors for simpler agents. One ...
Joshua S. Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mental models of robotic assistants
In the future, interactive robots will perform many helpful tasks. In 5 studies, we developed techniques for measuring the richness and content of people's mental models of a...
Sara B. Kiesler, Jennifer Goetz