Socially assistive robots: The link between personality, empathy, physiological signals, and task performance

Adriana Tapus, Maja J. Mataric

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Abstract

This paper describes a hands-off socially assistive therapist robot designed for monitoring, assisting, encouraging, and socially interacting with users engaged in rehabilitation exercises. We investigate the role of the robot's personality, empathy, and physiological signals in the hands-off therapy process, focusing mainly on the relationship between the level of extroversion-introversion of the robot and the user. We also demonstrate a behavior adaptation system capable of adjusting its social interaction parameters toward customized rehabilitation therapy based on the user's personality traits and task performance. The experiments validate our hypotheses of mapping the user's extroversion-introversion personality dimension to a spectrum of robot therapy styles that range from challenging to nurturing and of adapting the robot's therapy styles based on user personality and performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmotion, Personality, and Social Behavior - Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report
Pages133-140
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 30 Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2008 AAAI Spring Symposium - Stanford, CA, United States
Duration: 26 Mar 200828 Mar 2008

Publication series

NameAAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report
VolumeSS-08-04

Conference

Conference2008 AAAI Spring Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStanford, CA
Period26/03/0828/03/08

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