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Preserving Dignity in Patient Caregiver Relationships Using Moral Emotions and Robots
Preserving Dignity in Patient Caregiver Relationships Using Moral Emotions and Robots
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Arkin, Ronald C.
Scheutz, Matthias
Tickle-Degnen, Linda
Scheutz, Matthias
Tickle-Degnen, Linda
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This paper provides an overview of an ongoing
NSF project that is intended to improve the long-term quality of
care for patients suffering from early stage Parkinson’s disease.
Due to facial masking in the patient, a stigmatization often occurs
in their relationship with the caregiver due to the inability to adequately perceive the patient’s emotional state. We are
developing robot co-mediators to assist in the transmission of this
information through the use of artificial moral emotions that trigger suitable proxemic expressions in the robot, with the goal of ensuring that the quality of the patient-caregiver relationship is preserved.
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2014
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