Critical consideration of applications of affective robots to mental therapy from psychological and sociological perspectives

Author

Nomura, Tatsuya ; Tejima, Noriyuki

Author_Institution

Fac. of Manage. Inf., Hannan Univ., Osaka, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

104

Abstract

This paper deals with the application of affective robots to the field of mental therapy, and critically considers problems of these applications by referring to work in psychology and sociology on the mental reaction of humans to computers, social situations on reception of computers, and emotion sensitivity in modern society. Based on these considerations, the paper focuses attention on applications of robots to animal assisted therapy and activity, and narrative therapy, and considers the problems of these applications.

Keywords

emotion recognition; man-machine systems; medical robotics; patient treatment; psychology; social sciences; affective robots; animal assisted activity; animal assisted therapy; emotion sensitivity; human mental reaction; mental therapy; narrative therapy; psychological perspectives; social situations; sociological perspectives; Application software; Humanoid robots; Information management; Medical robotics; Medical treatment; Psychology; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Senior citizens; Sociology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7545-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045605

Filename

1045605