Guest Lecture: Robillard

Question 1

what are social robots

Answer 1

Depends on who you ask:
- Needs to be autonomous (make decisions on its own)
- Has a physical body
- Identifies and responds to cues from the enviroment (temperature/hear/see)
- Capable of social interactions.

Question 2

what are some potential applications of social robots for brain health?

Answer 2

Children:
- Social Skills
- Distraction
- Emotional support
Aging:
- Social interactions
- Monitoring
- Reminders/Daily activities

Question 3

What are the potential harms and ethical concerns with social robots for brain health?

Answer 3

• Privacy
• Responsibility
• Deception (people may think its real)
• Judgement or stigma
• Attachement

Question 4

What are some benefits with social robots for brain health?

Answer 4

• Treat terminal restlessness
• Keep away the blues
• Emotional impact
• “stucutral brain changes”
• Mood anxiety, arousal

Question 5

What is emotional alignment?

Answer 5

We want the robot to be emotionally alligned with the client. If you are upset and telling the robot that you are it should not be winking and smiling.

Question 6

What are some considerations when it comes to emotion and robotics?

Answer 6

• it is hard to agree on what emotion is
• humans experience multiple emotions at once.