TY - GEN
T1 - Emulating empathy in socially assistive robotics
AU - Tapus, Adriana
AU - Matarić, Maja J.
PY - 2007/12/28
Y1 - 2007/12/28
N2 - Evidence from psychology indicates that perceived empathy has a host of beneficial effects on attitudes and social behavior. Empathy plays a key role in patient-centered therapy, because it implies the apprehension of another's inner world and a joint understanding of emotions. This paper is a short survey of main issues relating to empathy that hold relevance to robotics. We focus on the existing literature on empathy in social psychology, and discuss its possible role of empathy in socially assistive robotics, along with possible methodologies for emulating and embodying empathy on robotic systems.
AB - Evidence from psychology indicates that perceived empathy has a host of beneficial effects on attitudes and social behavior. Empathy plays a key role in patient-centered therapy, because it implies the apprehension of another's inner world and a joint understanding of emotions. This paper is a short survey of main issues relating to empathy that hold relevance to robotics. We focus on the existing literature on empathy in social psychology, and discuss its possible role of empathy in socially assistive robotics, along with possible methodologies for emulating and embodying empathy on robotic systems.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/37349095930
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37349095930
SN - 9781577353164
T3 - AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
SP - 93
EP - 96
BT - Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics - Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
T2 - 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium
Y2 - 26 March 2007 through 28 March 2007
ER -