Towards Human–Robot Affective Co-evolution Overcoming Oppositions in Constructing Emotions and Empathy

This article deals with contemporary research aimed at building emotional and empathic robots, and gives an overview of the field focusing on its main characteristics and ongoing transformations. It interprets the latter as precursors to a paradigmatic transition that could significantly change our...

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Published in:International journal of social robotics 2015-02, Vol.7 (1), p.7-18
Main Authors: Damiano, Luisa, Dumouchel, Paul, Lehmann, Hagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Control
Emotions
Engineering
Mechatronics
Robotics
Robots
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Summary:This article deals with contemporary research aimed at building emotional and empathic robots, and gives an overview of the field focusing on its main characteristics and ongoing transformations. It interprets the latter as precursors to a paradigmatic transition that could significantly change our social ecologies. This shift consists in abandoning the classical view of emotions as essentially individual states, and developing a relational view of emotions, which, as we argue, can create genuinely new emotional and empathic processes—dynamics of “human–robot” affective coordination supporting the development of mixed (human–robot) ecologies.
ISSN:1875-4791
1875-4805
DOI:10.1007/s12369-014-0258-7