What makes people empathize with an emotional robot?: The impact of agency and physical embodiment on human empathy for a robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 180-185

  Kwak, Sonya S ^a   Kim, Yunkyung ^b   Kim, Eunho ^c   Shin, Christine ^d   Cho, Kwangsu ^e  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Industrial Technology   (South Korea)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FACTORS; EMOTIONAL INTERACTIONS; EMOTIONAL ROBOTS; EMOTIONAL STATE; EXPERIMENT DESIGN; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; SIMULATED ROBOT; SOCIAL PRESENCE;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE DESIGN;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84889583757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2013.6628441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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