The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places
Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs
Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs
Social robots and ECAs for accessing smart environments services
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
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Ambient Intelligence solutions may provide a great opportunity for elderly people to live longer at home. Assistance and care are delegated to the intelligence embedded in the environment. However, besides considering service-oriented response to the user needs, the assistance has to take into account the establishment of social relations. We propose the use of a robot NICA (as the name of the project Natural Interaction with a Caring Agent ) acting as a caring assistant that provides a social interface with the smart home services. In this paper, we introduce the general architecture of the robot's "mind" and then we focus on the need to properly react to affective and socially oriented situations.