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most citedCan empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?

2 citations · 2 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2025

Using the Pepper Robot to Support Sign Language Communication

Giulia Botta, Marco Botta, Cristina Gena +3

Social robots are increasingly experimented in public and assistive settings, but their accessibility for Deaf users remains quite underexplored. Italian Sign Language (LIS) is a f…

cs.RO2025

The Impact of Adaptive Emotional Alignment on Mental State Attribution and User Empathy in HRI

Giorgia Buracchio, Ariele Callegari, Massimo Donini +8

The paper presents an experiment on the effects of adaptive emotional alignment between agents, considered a prerequisite for empathic communication, in Human-Robot Interaction (HR…

cs.RO2025

Social and Telepresence Robots for Accessibility and Inclusion in Small Museums

Nello Balossino, Rossana Damiano, Cristina Gena +6

There are still many museums that present accessibility barriers, particularly regarding perceptual, cultural, and cognitive aspects. This is especially evident in low-density popu…

cs.RO2024

Investigating the relationship between empathy and attribution of mental states to robots

Alberto Lillo, Alessandro Saracco, Elena Siletto +2

This paper describes an experimental evaluation aimed at detecting the users' perception of the robot's empathic abilities during a conversation. The results have been then analyze…

cs.RO20232 cited

Can empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?

Cristina Gena, Francesca Manini, Antonio Lieto +2

This paper presents an experimental study showing that the humanoid robot NAO, in a condition already validated with regards to its capacity to trigger situational empathy in human…