Robots that incorporate social norms in their behaviors are seen as more supportive, friendly,and understanding. Since it is impossible to manually specify the most appropriate behavior for all possible situations, robots need to be able to learn it …
Robots that express human’s social norms, like empathy, are perceived as more friendly, understanding, and caring. However, appropriate human-like empathic behaviors cannot be defined in advance, instead, they must be learned through daily …
Observing another’s affective state and adjusting one’s behavior to respond to it, is the basic functionality of empathy. To enable robots to do this, they need a mechanism to learn how to provide the most appropriate empathic behavior through …