AIMC Topic: Empathy

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Empathy in Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Social Robots.

International journal of environmental research and public health
For a service robot to serve travelers at an airport or for a social robot to live with a human partner at home, it is vital for robots to possess the ability to empathize with human partners and express congruent emotions accordingly. We conducted a...

A Preliminary Study on Realizing Human-Robot Mental Comforting Dialogue via Sharing Experience Emotionally.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mental health issues are receiving more and more attention in society. In this paper, we introduce a preliminary study on human-robot mental comforting conversation, to make an android robot (ERICA) present an understanding of the user's situation by...

The importance of developing care-worker-centered robotic aides in long-term care.

Bioethics
Recent research points to the fact that new medical technological innovations are just as relevant in the context of long-term care or chronic care as they are in the context of acute care. In the spirit of the Nuffield Foundation recommendations, th...

A meta-analysis on the effectiveness of anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction.

Science robotics
The application of anthropomorphic design features is widely assumed to facilitate human-robot interaction (HRI). However, a considerable number of study results point in the opposite direction. There is currently no comprehensive common ground on th...

Development Issues of Healthcare Robots: Compassionate Communication for Older Adults with Dementia.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Although progress is being made in affective computing, issues remain in enabling the effective expression of compassionate communication by healthcare robots. Identifying, describing and reconciling these concerns are important in order to provide q...

EEG based functional connectivity analysis of human pain empathy towards humans and robots.

Neuropsychologia
Humans can show emotional reactions toward humanoid robots, such as empathy. Previous neuroimaging studies have indicated that neural responses of empathy for others' pain are modulated by an early automatic emotional sharing and a late controlled co...

Intelligent humanoid robots expressing artificial humanlike empathy in nursing situations.

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals
Intelligent humanoid robots (IHRs) are becoming likely to be integrated into nursing practice. However, a proper integration of IHRs requires a detailed description and explanation of their essential capabilities, particularly regarding their compete...

Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy to Reduce Pain and Distress during Peripheral IV Placement in Children.

Pain research & management
OBJECTIVES: Socially-assistive robots (SAR) have been used to reduce pain and distress in children in medical settings. Patients who perceive empathic treatment have increased satisfaction and improved outcomes. We sought to determine if an empathic ...

Artificial intelligence and the ongoing need for empathy, compassion and trust in healthcare.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Empathy, compassion and trust are fundamental values of a patient-centred, relational model of health care. In recent years, the quest for greater efficiency in health care, including economic efficiency, has often resulted in the side-lining of thes...

Representing Communication, Compassion, and Competence in the Era of AI.

AMA journal of ethics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now integrated into a variety of fields, including medicine. AI applications raise numerous ethical questions, particularly about quality of care and patient-clinician relationships. This article accompanies 2 digital ...