Title
Towards an Empathic Social Robot for Ambient Assisted Living.
Abstract
In the context of Ambient Assisted Living, assistance and care are delegated to the intelligence embedded in the environment that, in our opinion, should provide not only a task-oriented support but also an interface able to establish a social empathic relation with the user. This can be achieved, for instance, using a social assistive robot as interface towards the environment services. In the context of the NICA (Natural Interaction with a Caring Agent) project we developed the behavioral architecture of a social robot able to assist the user in the interaction with a smart home environment. In this paper we describe how this robot has been endowed with the capability of recognizing the user affective state from the combination of facial expressions and spoken utterances and to reason on in order to simulate an empathic behavior.
Year
Venue
DocType
2015
ESSEM@AAMAS
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Berardina Nadja De Carolis112.06
Stefano Ferilli2722101.11
Giuseppe Palestra314.09
Valeria Carofiglio423525.03