{"id":94084,"date":"2019-07-24T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-build-empathy-with-robots"},"modified":"2019-07-24T08:28:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:28:07","slug":"how-to-build-empathy-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/how-to-build-empathy-with-robots","title":{"rendered":"How to build empathy with robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-build-empathy-with-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to see the world through someone else\u2019s eyes is a great way to build empathy and understanding between people. Turns out, this approach \u2014 when taken literally \u2014 also works with robots. Researchers from the University of Bourgogne, University of Trento, and their colleagues used a head-mounted display to put people \u201cinside\u201d a robot and then studied their \u201clikeability and closeness towards the robot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated that by \u2018beaming\u2019 a participant into a robot we can change his or her attitude towards the robot,\u201d says University of Trento psychologist Francesco Pavani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy \u2018beaming\u2019, we mean that we gave the participants the illusion that they were looking through the robot\u2019s eyes, moving its head as if it were their head, look in the mirror and see themselves as a robot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to see the world through someone else\u2019s eyes is a great way to build empathy and understanding between people. Turns out, this approach \u2014 when taken literally \u2014 also works with robots. Researchers from the University of Bourgogne, University of Trento, and their colleagues used a head-mounted display to put people \u201cinside\u201d a robot [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}