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Relating Mori's Uncanny Valley in generating conversations with artificial affective communication and natural language processing.

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals
Human beings express affinity (Shinwa-kan in Japanese language) in communicating transactive engagements among healthcare providers, patients and healthcare robots. The appearance of healthcare robots and their language capabilities often feature cha...

Machine learning uncovers the most robust self-report predictors of relationship quality across 43 longitudinal couples studies.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Given the powerful implications of relationship quality for health and well-being, a central mission of relationship science is explaining why some romantic relationships thrive more than others. This large-scale project used machine learning (i.e., ...

Perspectives on usability and accessibility of an autonomous humanoid robot living with elderly people.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess how cohabitation with a social robot for seven days night and day is perceived by elderly potential users and to suggest technological improvements for future home integration.

Effects of the Level of Interactivity of a Social Robot and the Response of the Augmented Reality Display in Contextual Interactions of People with Dementia.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
The well-being of people with dementia (PWD) living in long-term care facilities is hindered due to disengagement and social isolation. Animal-like social robots are increasingly used in dementia care as they can provide companionship and engage PWD ...

Adherence and acceptability of a robot-assisted Pivotal Response Treatment protocol for children with autism spectrum disorder.

Scientific reports
The aim of this study is to present a robot-assisted therapy protocol for children with ASD based on the current state-of-the-art in both ASD intervention research and robotics research, and critically evaluate its adherence and acceptability based o...

A social robot intervention on depression, loneliness, and quality of life for Taiwanese older adults in long-term care.

International psychogeriatrics
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of a social robot intervention on depression, loneliness, and quality of life of older adults in long-term care (LTC) and to explore participants' experiences and perceptions after the intervention.

Achieving affective human-virtual agent communication by enabling virtual agents to imitate positive expressions.

Scientific reports
Affective communication, communicating with emotion, during face-to-face communication is critical for social interaction. Advances in artificial intelligence have made it essential to develop affective human-virtual agent communication. A person's b...

Vulnerable robots positively shape human conversational dynamics in a human-robot team.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Social robots are becoming increasingly influential in shaping the behavior of humans with whom they interact. Here, we examine how the actions of a social robot can influence human-to-human communication, and not just robot-human communication, usin...

User Experiences of Social Support From Companion Chatbots in Everyday Contexts: Thematic Analysis.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that artificial agents may be a promising source of social support for humans. However, the bulk of this research has been conducted in the context of social support interventions that specifically address stres...

Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: The worldwide population of older adults will soon exceed the capacity of assisted living facilities. Accordingly, we aim to understand whether appropriately designed robots could help older adults stay active at home.