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Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics for Social Robots.

Andre W Kushniruk1, Seper Rohani1, Elizabeth M Borycki1

  • 1School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada.

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Summary

Developing evidence-based design heuristics is crucial for creating empathetic social robots that can emotionally engage humans. These heuristics guide the creation and evaluation of positive human-robot interactions for real-world success.

Keywords:
Human-robot interactionartificial intelligenceempathetic responseempathyheuristicshuman-computer interactionsocial roboticstrustusability

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Area of Science:

  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Robotics
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Affective Computing

Background:

  • Social robots require emotional engagement for real-world application success.
  • Empathetic design focuses on creating user-connected and positively responsive technologies.
  • Existing literature on empathetic human-robot design provides a foundation for developing practical guidelines.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop evidence-based empathetic design heuristics.
  • To guide the creation and evaluation of human-robot interactions (HRI).
  • To support the design and evaluation of emotive social robots.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted a comprehensive review of published literature on empathetic human-robot design.
  • Convened an expert panel to extract, refine, and specify design heuristics.
  • Clustered the developed heuristics into subclasses based on related themes.

Main Results:

  • A set of evidence-based empathetic design heuristics was developed.
  • The heuristics are organized into several subclasses of related principles.
  • The heuristics are intended for practical application in social robot development.

Conclusions:

  • The developed heuristics provide a structured approach to designing empathetic social robots.
  • These heuristics can enhance the emotional engagement capabilities of social robots.
  • The guidelines aim to improve the overall success of social robots in real-world scenarios.