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RESCUE-BENCH: Towards Relation-Aware Multi-Party Emotional Support Conversation Systems
Haichuan Hu, Yang Xiao, Mingni Tang +7
Existing emotional support conversation systems mainly focus on one-on-one seeker-supporter interactions and individual emotional states, leaving interpersonal relations in multi-p…
Correlation of divergency: c_delta. Being different in a similar way or not
Johan F. Hoorn, Johnny K. W. Ho
Matched sets may have unlike mean scores and spreads yet share the same way in which some scores stand apart. Mean gaps and raw-score correlations do not answer this question. Corr…
A test statistic, , for outlier analysis
Johan F. Hoorn, Johnny K. W. Ho
Outlier analysis is a critical tool across diverse domains, from clinical decision-making to cybersecurity and talent identification. Traditional statistical outlier detection meth…
Observer effect modulates classification in a quantum epistemic framework
Johan F. Hoorn, Johnny K. W. Ho
The observer effect in quantum physics states that observation inevitably influences the system being observed. This work introduces an epistemic framework that treats the observer…
Epistemic reflections on AI answering our questions: overwatch, erudite, logician, interlocutor
Johan F. Hoorn, Ella-Jenna Oosterglorenwoud
Currently, there is a trend for the wider public to rely on LLMs for financial or legal consultation, medical and mental support (Chatterji et al., 2025), often accepting the advic…
The Media Inequality, Uncanny Mountain, and the Singularity is Far from Near: Iwaa and Sophia Robot versus a Real Human Being
Johan F. Hoorn, Ivy S. Huang
Design of Artificial Intelligence and robotics habitually assumes that adding more humanlike features improves the user experience, mainly kept in check by suspicion of uncanny eff…
Robot Affect: the Amygdala as Bloch Sphere
Johan F. Hoorn, Johnny K. W. Ho
In the design of artificially sentient robots, an obstacle always has been that conventional computers cannot really process information in parallel, whereas the human affective sy…
A robot's sense-making of fallacies and rhetorical tropes. Creating ontologies of what humans try to say
Johan F. Hoorn, Denice J. Tuinhof
In the design of user-friendly robots, human communication should be understood by the system beyond mere logics and literal meaning. Robot communication-design has long ignored th…
Theory of Robot Communication: I. The Medium is the Communication Partner
Johan F. Hoorn
When people use electronic media for their communication, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) theories describe the social and communicative aspects of people's interpersonal tra…
Theory of Robot Communication: II. Befriending a Robot over Time
Johan F. Hoorn
In building on theories of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Human-Robot Interaction, and Media Psychology (i.e. Theory of Affective Bonding), the current paper proposes an ex…