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Empathy and yawn contagion: can we (humans) catch yawns from robots?

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Mohammad Obaid,

Dieta Kuchenbrandt,

Christoph BartneckAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

Pages 260 - 261

https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2563702

Published: 03 March 2014 Publication History

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Empathy plays an important role in the interaction between humans and robots. The contagious effect of yawning is moderated by the degree of social closeness and empathy. We propose to analyse the contagion of yawns as an indicator for empathy. We conducted pilot studies to test different experimental procedures for this purpose. We hope to be able to report on experimental results in the near future.

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Lehmann HBroz FKanda TŜabanović SHoffman GTapus A(2018)Contagious Yawning in Human-Robot InteractionCompanion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3173386.3177063(173-174)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173386.3177063

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Empathy and yawn contagion: can we (humans) catch yawns from robots?
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Psychology
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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HRI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

March 2014

538 pages

ISBN:9781450326582

DOI:10.1145/2559636

General Chairs:
Gerhard Sagerer
Bielefeld University, Germany
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Michita Imai
Keio University, Japan
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Tony Belpaeme
Plymouth University, UK
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Andrea Thomaz
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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Stock-Homburg R(2021)Survey of Emotions in Human–Robot Interactions: Perspectives from Robotic Psychology on 20 Years of ResearchInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-021-00778-614:2(389-411)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00778-6
Lehmann HBroz FKanda TŜabanović SHoffman GTapus A(2018)Contagious Yawning in Human-Robot InteractionCompanion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.1145/3173386.3177063(173-174)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173386.3177063

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