%0 Conference Paper %B Proc. New Friends 2015 %D 2015 %T Let’s Be Friends: Perception of a Social Robotic Companion for children with T1DM %A Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana %A Oleari, Elettra %A Pozzi, Clara %A Sacchitelli, Francesca %A Bagherzadhalimi, Anahita %A Bellini, Sara %A Kiefer, Bernd %A Racioppa, Stefania %A Coninx, Alexandre %A Paul E. Baxter %A Bierman, Bert %A Henkemans, Olivier Blanson %A Mark A. Neerincx %A Rosemarijn Looije %A Yiannis Demiris %A Espinoza, Raquel Ros %A Mosconi, Marco %A Cosi, Piero %A Remi Humbert %A Lola Cañamero %A Hichem Sahli %A Joachim de Greeff %A James Kennedy %A Robin Read %A Lewis, Matthew %A Antoine Hiolle %A Giulio Paci %A Sommavilla, Giacomo %A Tesser, Fabio %A Athanasopoulos, Georgios %A Patsis, Georgios %A Verhelst, Werner %A Alberto Sanna %A Tony Belpaeme %X We describe the social characteristics of a robot developed to support children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in the process of education and care. We evaluated the perception of the robot at a summer camp where diabetic children aged 10-14 experienced the robot in group interactions. Children in the intervention condition additionally interacted with it also individually, in one-to-one sessions featuring several game-like activities. These children perceived the robot significantly more as a friend than those in the control group. They also readily engaged with it in dialogues about their habits related to healthy lifestyle as well as personal experiences concerning diabetes. This indicates that the one-on-one interactions added a special quality to the relationship of the children with the robot. %B Proc. New Friends 2015 %C Almere, The Netherlands %P 32–33 %8 10/2015 %G eng %U https://mheerink.home.xs4all.nl/pdf/ProceedingsNF2015-3.pdf %0 Conference Paper %B Proc. 4th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2014) %D 2014 %T Natural Emotion Elicitation for Emotion Modeling in Child-Robot Interactions %A Wang, Weiyi %A Athanasopoulos, Georgios %A Yilmazyildiz, Selma %A Patsis, Georgios %A Valentin Enescu %A Hichem Sahli %A Verhelst, Werner %A Antoine Hiolle %A Lewis, Matthew %A Lola Cañamero %X Obtaining spontaneous emotional expressions is the very first and vital step in affective computing studies, for both psychologists and computer scientists. However, it is quite challenging to record them in real life, especially when certain modalities are required (e.g. 3D representation of the body). Traditional elicitation and capturing protocols either introduce the awareness of the recording, which may impair the naturalness of the behaviors, or cause too much information loss. In this paper, we present natural emotion elicitation and recording experiments, which were set in child-robot interaction scenarios. Several state-of-the-art technologies were employed to acquire the multi-modal expressive data that will be further used for emotion modeling and recognition studies. The obtained recordings exhibit the expected emotional expressions. %B Proc. 4th Workshop on Child Computer Interaction (WOCCI 2014) %I ICSA %C Singapore %P 51–56 %G eng %U https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/wocci_2014/wc14_051.html %0 Conference Paper %B Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 %D 2009 %T The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A Case Study with a Robot Head %A John C Murray %A Lola Cañamero %A Kim A. Bard %A Ross, Marina Davila %A Thorsteinsson, Kate %E Kim, Jong-Hwan %E Ge, Shuzhi Sam %E Vadakkepat, Prahlad %E Jesse, Norbert %E Al Manum, Abdullah %E Puthusserypady K, Sadasivan %E Rückert, Ulrich %E Sitte, Joaquin %E Witkowski, Ulf %E Nakatsu, Ryohei %E Braunl, Thomas %E Baltes, Jacky %E Anderson, John %E Wong, Ching-Chang %E Verner, Igor %E Ahlgren, David %X In this paper we focus primarily on the influence that socio-emotional interaction has on the perception of emotional expression by a robot. We also investigate and discuss the importance of emotion expression in socially interactive situations involving human robot interaction (HRI), and show the importance of utilising emotion expression when dealing with interactive robots, that are to learn and develop in socially situated environments. We discuss early expressional development and the function of emotion in communication in humans and how this can improve HRI communications. Finally we provide experimental results showing how emotion-rich interaction via emotion expression can affect the HRI process by providing additional information. %B Advances in Robotics: Proc. FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %C Incheon, Korea %V 5744 %P 63–72 %8 08/2009 %@ 978-3-642-03983-6 %G eng %U https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03983-6_10 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-03983-6_10 %0 Journal Article %J Recenti Progressi in Medicina %D 2004 %T Intelligenza artificiale in medicina: progetto di una piattaforma mobile inserita in un ambiente intelligente per l'assistenza ai disabili e agli anziani %A Cortés, Ulises %A Annicchiarico, Roberta %A Campana, Fabio %A Vázquez-Salceda, Javier %A Urdiales, Cristina %A Lola Cañamero %A Maite López %A Miquel Sànchez-Marrè %A Di Vincenzo, Sarah %A Carlo Caltagirone %X Viene presentato un progetto basato sull'integrazione di nuove tecnologie e di Intelligenza artificiale per sviluppare uno strumento – e-tool – indirizzato alle persone disabili ed agli anziani. Una piattaforma mobile inserita all'interno di ambienti intelligenti (strutture di assistenza o abitazioni), controllata e gestita attraverso un'architettura multilivello, viene proposta come supporto sia per i pazienti che per i caregiver al fine di aumentare l'autonomia nella vita quotidiana. A project based on the integration of new technologies and artificial intelligence to develop a device – e-tool – for disabled patients and elderly people is presented. A mobile platform in intelligent environments (skilled-care facilities and home-care), controlled and managed by a multi-level architecture, is proposed to support patients and caregivers to increase self-dependency in activities of daily living. %B Recenti Progressi in Medicina %I Pensiero scientifico %V 95 %P 190–195 %G eng %N 4 %R 10.1701/39.314 %0 Conference Paper %B From Animals to Animats 8: Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04) %D 2004 %T Using Hormonal Feedback to Modulate Action Selection in a Competitive Scenario %A Avila-García, Orlando %A Lola Cañamero %E Stefan Schaal %E Auke Jan Ijspeert %E Aude Billard %E Sethu Vijayakumar %E John Hallam %E Jean-Arcady Meyer %X In this paper we investigate the use of hormonal feedback as a mechanism to modulate a "motivation-based," homeostatic action selection mechanism (ASM) in a robot. We have framed our study in the context of a dynamic, multirobot, competitive "two-resource" action selection problem. The introduction of competitors has important consequences for action selection. We first show how the interaction between robots introduces new forms of environmental complexity that affect their viability. Secondly, we propose a "hormone-like" mechanism that, modulating the input of the ASM, tackles these new sources of complexity. %B From Animals to Animats 8: Proc. 8th Intl. Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'04) %I MIT Press %C Los Angeles, USA %P 243–252 %@ 9780262693417 %G eng %U https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Orlando_Avila-Garcia/publication/228958663_Using_Hormonal_Feedback_to_Modulate_Action_Selection_in_a_Competitive_Scenario/links/0deec533c8411ebe0c000000.pdf %R 10.7551/mitpress/3122.003.0031 %0 Journal Article %J AI Communications %D 2003 %T Assistive technologies for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens: The e-Tools architecture %A Cortés, Ulises %A Annicchiarico, Roberta %A Vázquez-Salceda, Javier %A Urdiales, Cristina %A Lola Cañamero %A Maite López %A Miquel Sànchez-Marrè %A Carlo Caltagirone %X In this paper we present our exploratory ideas about the integration of agent technology with other technologies to build specific e-tools for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens. "e-Tools" stands for Embedded Tools, as we aim to embed intelligent assistive devices in homes and other facilities, creating ambient intelligence environments to give support to patients and caregivers. In particular, we aim to explore the benefits of the concept of situated intelligence to build artefacts that will enhance the autonomy of the target user group in their daily life. %B AI Communications %I IOS Press %C Amsterdam, The Netherlands %V 16 %P 193–207 %G eng %U http://content.iospress.com/articles/ai-communications/aic288 %N 3 %0 Book Section %B e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care %D 2003 %T e-Tools: The use of Assistive Technologies to enhance disabled and senior citizens’ autonomy %A Cortés, Ulises %A Annicchiarico, Roberta %A Vázquez-Salceda, Javier %A Urdiales, Cristina %A Lola Cañamero %A Maite López %A Miquel Sànchez-Marrè %A Carlo Caltagirone %E I Rudomín %E J Vázquez-Salceda %E J L Díaz de León Santiago %X In this paper we present our preliminary ideas about the integration of several technologies to build specific e-tools for the disabled and for the new generation of senior citizens. ‘e-Tools’ stands for Embedded Tools, as we aim to embed intelligent assistive devices in homes and other facilities, creating ambient intelligence environments to give support to patients and caregivers. In particular, we aim to explore the benefits of the concept of situated intelligence to build intelligent artefacts that will enhance the autonomy of the target group during their daily life. We present here a multi-level architecture and our preliminary research on navigation schemes for a robotic wheelchair. %B e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care %I Instituto Politécnico National Press %P 119–132 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology %D 2000 %T Emotionally Grounded Social Interaction %A D Cañamero %A Walter Van de Velde %E Kerstin Dautenhahn %B Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology %S Advances in Consciousness Research %I John Benjamins Publishing Co. %P 137–162 %G eng %& 6 %0 Conference Proceedings %D 1998 %T Learning in Humans and Machines. Notes of the ECML'98 Workshop Human Learning Meets Machine Learning %E D Cañamero %E M Van Someren %C Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany %G eng %0 Conference Paper %B Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium %D 1997 %T Socially Emotional: Using Emotions to Ground Social Interaction %A D Cañamero %A Walter Van de Velde %E Kerstin Dautenhahn %B Socially Intelligent Agents. Papers from the 1997 AAAI Fall Symposium %I The AAAI Press %P 10–15 %G eng