Modelling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children: An ethnographic study in real-world settings

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 367-374

  Leite, Iolanda ^a   Castellano, Ginevra ^b   Pereira, André ^a   Martinho, Carlos ^a   Paiva, Ana ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affect recognition; children; empathy; social robots

Indexed keywords

AFFECT RECOGNITION; AFFECTIVE INTERACTION; AFFECTIVE STATE; CHILDREN; DAILY LIVES; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; EMPATHY; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; SOCIAL ROBOTS; TARGET APPLICATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84859967043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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