EMPATHICH

Sharing feelings is essential to empathic communication. This demo allows participants to send and receive emotional signals using a pair of small robots. The robots’ gestures take advantage of the mobility and embodied qualities of robots, and explore ...

Social engineering is a popular attack vector among cyber criminals. During such attacks, impostors often attempt to trigger empathy to manipulate victims into taking dangerous actions, for example, sharing their credentials or clicking on malicious ...

Studies have shown that feminine chatbots are perceived as warmer (e.g., likable, friendly) and imbue more humanness to a machine than masculine or gender-androgynous chatbots. As chatbots are being widely deployed in various empathic contexts (e.g., ...

The ability to express empathy is recognized as a key factor for non-human agents to provide effective support and companionship. However, the conceptualization of empathy goes against their non-human nature, as it is grounded in unique human ...

This paper aims to analyze the content and relevance of one of the most popular contemporary training corpora for empathetic conversational agents: EmpatheticDialogues [23]. We provide a detailed qualitative breakdown of the corpus including the corpus ...

Given that people spend a significant amount of time within buildings, designing spaces while taking into consideration the impact that they may have on occupants’ well-being is a challenge. While architecture relies on design practices to elicit ...

The digitization of services and global lock-downs have led an explosion of delivery services, which use gig-workers as delivery personnel. They can face apathy from both their employers and users of the service. Previous studies focused on mediating ...

Hidden or invisible disabilities are invisible to the onlooker and can be physical, mental, or neurological conditions that limit a person's movements, senses or activities. As a result, they can lead to misunderstandings, false perceptions, and ...

Successful empathetic interaction requires an accurate understanding of the interaction partner’s affect dynamics. Self-reported annotations provide a way to better understand affect and empathy in real-life; however, the necessary user interactions for ...

Empathic design provides tools and frameworks supporting designers to understand users’ experiences with products or services. However, how does one hand over this empathic understanding of users to other internal stakeholders shaping the service ...