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Robot Mirroring: Promoting Empathy with an Artificial Agent by Reflecting the User's Physiological Affective States

Perusquia-Hernandez, Monica
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Balda, Marisabel Cuberos
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Jauregui, David Antonio Gomez
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January 1, 2020
2020 29Th Ieee International Conference On Robot And Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man)
29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN)

Self-tracking aims to increase awareness, decrease undesired behaviors, and ultimately lead towards a healthier lifestyle. However, inappropriate communication of self-tracking results might cause the opposite effect. Subtle self-tracking feedback is an alternative that can be provided with the aid of an artificial agent representing the self. Hence, we propose a wearable pet that reflects the user's affective states through visual and haptic feedback. By eliciting empathy and fostering helping behaviors towards it, users would indirectly help themselves. A wearable prototype was built, and three user studies performed to evaluate the appropriateness of the proposed affective representations. Visual representations using facial and body cues were clear for valence and less clear for arousal. Haptic interoceptive patterns emulating heart-rate levels matched the desired feedback urgency levels with a saturation frequency. The integrated visuo-haptic representations matched to participants own affective experience. From the results, we derived three design guidelines for future robot mirroring wearable systems: physical embodiment, interoceptive feedback, and customization.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223598
Web of Science ID

WOS:000598571700193

Author(s)
Perusquia-Hernandez, Monica
Balda, Marisabel Cuberos
Jauregui, David Antonio Gomez
Paez-Granados, Diego  
Dollack, Felix
Salazar, Jose Victorio
Date Issued

2020-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2020 29Th Ieee International Conference On Robot And Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man)
ISBN of the book

978-1-7281-6075-7

Series title/Series vol.

IEEE RO-MAN

Start page

1328

End page

1333

Subjects

Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Robotics

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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human-machine interaction

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embodiment

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empathy and intersubjectivity

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haptic feedback

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

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OTHER

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29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN)

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