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Designing for Perceived Robot Empathy for Children in Long-Term Care

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We describe a mixed-methods approach toward the design and evaluation of social robots that can offer emotional support for children in long-term care environments. Based on the results of a needfinding interview with a local expert, our specific aim was to design a robot that would be perceived as empathetic. An online human-subject study (n = 26) provided preliminary support for a hypothesis that this design goal could be achieved by designing robots to maintain the flow of conversation and ask related followup questions to further understand interlocutors’ feelings.

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  • Social robot design
  • Child-robot interaction
  • Empathy

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401, USA

    Alexandra Bejarano, Olivia Lomax, Peyton Scherschel & Tom Williams

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Correspondence to Alexandra Bejarano , Olivia Lomax , Peyton Scherschel or Tom Williams .

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  1. Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    Dr. Haizhou Li

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Prof. Dr. Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Wu

  4. Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Assist. Prof. Hongsheng He

  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

    Xiaorui Liu

  7. School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Prof. Dongyu Li

  8. Social Cognition Human-Robot Interaction, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Jairo Perez-Osorio

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Bejarano, A., Lomax, O., Scherschel, P., Williams, T. (2021). Designing for Perceived Robot Empathy for Children in Long-Term Care. In: , et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_65

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