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HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 1 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 4 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 6 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
14 years 1 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 6 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