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most citedPaving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper

62 citations · 81 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2019

Robby is Not a Robber (anymore): On the Use of Institutions for Learning Normative Behavior

Stevan Tomic, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti

Future robots should follow human social norms in order to be useful and accepted in human society. In this paper, we leverage already existing social knowledge in human societies…

cs.AI2018★ 3 cited

Norms, Institutions, and Robots

Stevan Tomic, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti

Interactions within human societies are usually regulated by social norms. If robots are to be accepted into human society, it is essential that they are aware of and capable of re…

cs.CY2018★ 62 cited

Paving the Way for Culturally Competent Robots: a Position Paper

Barbara Bruno, Nak Young Chong, Hiroko Kamide +9

Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise…

cs.RO2018★ 10 cited

A framework for Culture-aware Robots based on Fuzzy Logic

Barbara Bruno, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Federico Pecora +2

Cultural adaptation, i.e., the matching of a robot's behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a well known key requirement for the success of any assistive…

cs.RO2017★ 6 cited

The CARESSES EU-Japan project: making assistive robots culturally competent

Barbara Bruno, Nak Young Chong, Hiroko Kamide +9

The nursing literature shows that cultural competence is an important requirement for effective healthcare. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise be culturally co…