Task 7 - M&M

Question 1

What is a social robot?

Answer 1

• is an autonomous robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role
• is physically embodied
• quite recent, since the 1990s

Question 2

What is affective computing?

Answer 2

• study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects
• interdisciplinary field: computer science, psy and cognitive science

Question 3

What is the motivations for the research of affective computing?

Answer 3

• ability to give machines emotional intelligence, including to simulate empathy
• machine should interpret the emotional state of humans and adapt its behavior to them, giving an appropriate response to those emotions

Question 4

What is human-robot interaction?

Answer 4

• study of interactions between humans and robots. It is often referred as HRI by researchers
• multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language understanding, design, humanities and social sciences

Question 5

What is cyberpsychology?

Answer 5

developing field that encompasses all psychological phenomena associated with or affected by emerging technology

Question 6

What are 3 Research Directions for Affective Learning Technologies? (Baylor)

Answer 6

1. Simulating affect to enhance human-like aspects of technology
2. Sensing and responding to learner affect in both immersive environments and largerscale nonformal settings
3. Supporting affective learning-related outcomes

Question 7

Which types of games are the most beneficical for our brain? Why? (Raoafi and Sosso)

Answer 7

Action games are the most beneficial for the brain, whether online, on the phone or on the console

• -> stimulate our brain the most
• -> subject forced to make quick and precise decisions

Question 8

How does intensive practice maintains a healthy cognitive function?

Answer 8

• more easily follow a target in a complex environment, and their ability to concentrate increases considerably -> greater capacity for attention
• reaction faster and they are also quicker to refocus their attention to the search for a new target in the virtual environment
• develop reflexes above the average

Question 9

What has the increase in cognitive functions lead to when playing action games?

Answer 9

• associated with a significant increase in cognitive capacity for attention and memory
• correlation between regular gaming practice and a change in the functioning of the hippocampus

Question 10

What was the result of a study w/ social robots with autistic children?

Answer 10

they have interacted more with the robots than with other children

Question 11

What are characteristics of a good social robot?

Answer 11

• face and visual feedback/ expressions
• able to understand and show non-verbal cues
• social skills

Question 12

What are applications of social robots?

Answer 12

• increase mood of lonely people (e.g. elderly)

- autistic children

Question 13

What are 3 types of social robots?

Answer 13

1. professional
2. personal
3. industrial

Question 14

What are the most important characteristics of social robots?

Answer 14

Emotion exchange and interaction

Question 15

Challenges for affective computing

Answer 15

• understanding of emotions in humans still limited
• how to intergrate multimodal Information
• ethics -> sense of self awareness?
• human system: complex

Question 16

Methods of affective computing

Answer 16

1. knowledge based -> informing search processes by data bases on emotional words (supervised)
2. statistical approaches e.g. deep learning
3. hybrid

Question 17

4 areas of human robot interaction

Answer 17

1. Human supervisory control -> robots perform routine task
2. Remote control of space in non-routine task (remote physically inaccesiable regions)
3. Automatised vehicles
4. Human robot social interaction