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Social touch is helpful for improving social connection, and it is one potential method to improve online communication with people at a distance. Although prior work examined if social touch from robot is effective for communicating sympathy compared to ...

• New scale assesses empathy felt during digital communication (digital empathy).
• Factor analyses reveal six subscales, each matching an existing empathy construct.
• Subscales allow testing of complex digital empathy/digital behavior ...

This investigation developed a self-report measure of empathy as experienced within digital communication – “digital empathy”. 72 items were developed using six validated empathy constructs as conceptual bases. In Study 1, exploratory factor ...

With the increased interaction between artificial agents and humans, the need to have agents who can respond to their human counterparts appropriately will be crucial for the deployment of trustworthy systems. A key behaviour to permit this, one which ...

As artificial agents become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, it becomes imperative to equip them with an awareness of societal norms; specifically, the ability to account for and be considerate towards others they may cohabit with. In this ...

We seek to understand how socially desirable traits like sympathy, reciprocity and fairness can survive in environments that include aggressive and exploitative agents. Social scientists have long observed and theorized about ingrained motivational ...

This paper investigates bias in coverage between Western and Arab media on Twitter after the November 2015 Beirut and Paris terror attacks. Using two Twitter datasets covering each attack, we investigate how Western and Arab media differed in coverage ...

An approach supporting spatial workspace collaboration via a video-mediated communication system is described. Based on experimental results, the following were determined to be the system requirements to support spatial workspace collaboration: ...