Understanding computers and cognition
Understanding computers and cognition
Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction
Where the action is: the foundations of embodied interaction
DIS '04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
There is more in a single touch: mapping the continuous to the discrete
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCHI Italian Chapter International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Facing Complexity
The Design of Everyday Things
How to design for transformation of behavior through interactive materiality
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
Dreamy eyes: exploring dynamic expression in human-system interaction
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
GHOST: exploring the subtleties 'of' and 'interaction with' shape-changing interfaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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This paper presents the Squeeze Me, a research-through-design case that explores the emergence of empathic behavior between human and machine by sparking an expression-rich relation. The Squeeze Me is a squeezable device used to grab attention from a robot, providing ground for expressive values to be shared. The expressions exerted on the mediating device by the human are mapped to expressive behaviors of the robot in the modality of motion in forthcoming interaction. We propose a double-layered interaction paradigm in achieving natural and socially acceptable synthesis. Firstly, a direct mapping, inherently exhibiting a natural relationship. Secondly, an amplifying and reductive mapping to construct a personalizing relationship through vivid and lively interactions fed by the intentions of the robot as well as the user. The design case serves to explore consequences of a phenomenological approach on the constitution of empathy in the fields of human and robot interaction. With this work we intend to inspire design engineering to shift from representational and discrete to rich, continuous-sustained and other embodied mechanisms for interaction when targeting empathic behavior to emerge.