Empathy with Human's and Robot's Embarrassments in Virtual Environments

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dc.contributor.authorSugiura, Marutaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHigashihata, Kentoen_US
dc.contributor.authorSato, Atsushien_US
dc.contributor.authorItakura, Shojien_US
dc.contributor.authorKitazaki, Michiteruen_US
dc.contributor.editorKulik, Alexander and Sra, Misha and Kim, Kangsoo and Seo, Byung-Kuken_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-01T16:10:56Z
dc.date.available2020-12-01T16:10:56Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractWe feel embarrassed not only when we are embarrassed but also when we are watching others embarrassed. Humans show empathy for pain not only human others but also robots. However, it has not been investigated whether humans show empathy for robot's embarrassment. Thus, we aimed to test whether humans can empathize with robot's embarrassment in virtual environments. Four situations both of non-embarrassing and embarrassing stimuli were presented on an HMD, and participants were asked to rate their own feeling of embarrassment and the actor's feeling of embarrassment. We found that the own feeling of embarrassment was higher in human than robot actors, and higher in embarrassing than non-embarrassing conditions. The actor's feeling of embarrassment was rated higher in embarrassing than non-embarrassing conditions, and the effect was much larger in human than robot actors. These results suggest that participants could show empathy with both for human and robot in the embarrassing situations, but they infer that the robot feels less embarrassed than humans.en_US
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dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - Posters and Demos
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20201277
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-112-0
dc.identifier.issn1727-530X
dc.identifier.pages17-18
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20201277
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egve20201277
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectHuman centered computing
dc.subjectVirtual reality
dc.titleEmpathy with Human's and Robot's Embarrassments in Virtual Environmentsen_US
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