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Contagious Yawning in Human-Robot Interaction

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HRI '18: Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 173 - 174

https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177063

Published: 01 March 2018 Publication History

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This late breaking report introduces an approach to measure yawning contagion between robots and humans. Understanding to what extent yawning can be contagious between robots and humans will help to generate more believable interaction behaviors for social robots and contribute to a better understanding of cognitive phenomena like empathy and their application in HRI. We will give an overview of an experiment which used an EMYS robot for the presentation of the yawning stimulus. We will present the results of our preliminary analysis of the collected data.

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Contagious Yawning in Human-Robot Interaction
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Empirical studies in interaction design

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HRI '18: Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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ISBN:9781450356152

DOI:10.1145/3173386

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ATR, Japan
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Indiana University Bloomington, USA
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Cornell University, USA
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ENSTA-ParisTech, France

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Datteri E(2024)From the Restless COG to the Yawning Robot: Humanoid Robotics as a Model-Based ScienceModel-Based Reasoning, Abductive Cognition, Creativity10.1007/978-3-031-69300-7_4(49-65)Online publication date: 21-Nov-2024
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Urakami J(2023)Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to HelpInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-023-01058-115:9-10(1457-1471)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2023
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