Organisation de l'ichtyofaune en fonction du confinement dans les milieux paraliques de Méditerranée occidentale

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Empathy Display Influence on Human-Robot Interactions: a Pilot Study

International audienceSocial robots are designed to interact and communicate with humans. We have conducted a pilot study to explore how an artificial empathy module can affect Human-Robot Interactions. For that pilot study, we chose to evaluate the effects of a module we developed called "attention-based empathic module" and we set up an experiment within two conditions, "Empathy" (i.e., with this module), and "No-Empathy" (i.e., without this module). In order to define what aspects of HRI are affected, we used several metrics found in HRI literature including self-reported questionnaires-e.g., perceived empathy test-physiological measures-e.g., number of attentional disengagements-and objective measures-e.g., time of interaction, and performance. Dividing 36 participants into two groups and controlling the main biases inherent in subjects selection, we found that the "attention-based empathic module" seems to have affected 9 metrics: the interaction duration, how trustworthy the robot was perceived, the number of disengagements , how empathic the robot was perceived, how much participants felt they knew the robot, how the robot's intelligence was perceived, how comfortable the interaction was perceived, how much the robot was perceived as knowledgeable, and how engaging the interaction was perceived. Due to the exploratory approach of this study, these results have to be confirmed

The RoPE Scale: a Measure of How Empathic a Robot is Perceived

International audienceTo be accepted in our everyday life and to be valuable interaction partners, robots should be able to display emotional and empathic behaviors. That is why there has been a great focus on developing empathy in robots in recent years. However, there is no consensus on how to measure how much a robot is considered to be empathic. In this context, we decided to construct a questionnaire which specifically measures the perception of a robot's empathy in human-robot interaction (HRI). Therefore we conducted pretests to generate items. These were validated by experts and will be further validated in an experimental setting