TY - GEN
T1 - What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
T2 - 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2022
AU - Mouzehkesh Pirborj, Leila
AU - Mubin, Omar
AU - Lwin, Michael
AU - Khan, Aila
AU - Alnajjar, Fady
N1 - Funding Information:
This publication is supported by Western Sydney University and Digital Health CRC Limited (“DHCRC”). DHCRC is funded under the Commonwealth’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 ACM.
PY - 2022/12/5
Y1 - 2022/12/5
N2 - To be welcomed as assistant robots in our daily lives, robots must be liberated from their rigid, programmed logic and made more emotive and empathic to engage with people on their terms [1]. One of the key factors in designing and developing more human-like robots is to understand human emotions and behaviours regarding their pain empathy. This research focuses on the role of emotional touch (painful touch) in humanoid robots in the field of empathy. This paper explores empathic responses through emotional touch in pain conditions. The study conceptualizes a new product (Pain-empathy Bandage) that will be tested in a series of experiments to evoke emotional touch in humanoid robots. This new product will allow researchers to explore helping behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction through touch in "pain conditions". Additionally, the study will show a comparison between different body parts of the robot that creates an "authentic touch sensation". The study proposes a new method to evoke empathy in HRI through various pain cues (e.g., bandages).
AB - To be welcomed as assistant robots in our daily lives, robots must be liberated from their rigid, programmed logic and made more emotive and empathic to engage with people on their terms [1]. One of the key factors in designing and developing more human-like robots is to understand human emotions and behaviours regarding their pain empathy. This research focuses on the role of emotional touch (painful touch) in humanoid robots in the field of empathy. This paper explores empathic responses through emotional touch in pain conditions. The study conceptualizes a new product (Pain-empathy Bandage) that will be tested in a series of experiments to evoke emotional touch in humanoid robots. This new product will allow researchers to explore helping behaviour in Human-Robot Interaction through touch in "pain conditions". Additionally, the study will show a comparison between different body parts of the robot that creates an "authentic touch sensation". The study proposes a new method to evoke empathy in HRI through various pain cues (e.g., bandages).
KW - Emotional Touch
KW - Empathy
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
KW - Pain
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U2 - 10.1145/3527188.3563931
DO - 10.1145/3527188.3563931
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85144624420
T3 - HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
SP - 272
EP - 274
BT - HAI 2022 - Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 5 December 2022 through 8 December 2022
ER -