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The paper describes an architecture for an assistive robot acting in a domestic environment aiming to establish a robust affective and emotional relationship with the patient during rehabilitation at home. The robot has the aim to support the patient in the therapy, to monitor the patient health state, to give affective support increasing the motivation of the human in a period of two or three weeks. The affective based relationship will arise from an interaction based on natural language verbal interaction, on the acquisition of data and vital parameters by environmental and wearable sensors, on a robust human perception using the perceptive robot capabilities. An important issue is that robot activity should be understandable by the human: the proposed architecture enables the robot to express its (emotional) state, its planes, and its interpretation of perceptual data. The implicit goal is to obtain a human emotional involvement that causes the patient to “take care of” its artificial assistant, trying to satisfy the robot’s expectation and motivation. The paper describes the proposed layered architecture (including modules components responsible for events and contexts detection, planning, complex verbal interaction, and artificial motivation, use cases, design patterns and control policies), discusses modeling use cases, and reports preliminary experimentation performed by simulation.
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The work has been supported by the Italian project “AMICO - Medical Assistence In COntextual awareness” , ARS 0100900 - CUP B46G18000390005, Decreto GU n.267/16-11-2018, PON R&I 2014–2020.
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Infantino, I., Machí, A. (2020). Towards an Assistive Social Robot Interacting with Human Patient to Establish a Mutual Affective Support. In: Cicirelli, F., Guerrieri, A., Pizzuti, C., Socievole, A., Spezzano, G., Vinci, A. (eds) Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. WIVACE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45016-8_1
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