Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Artificial Kindness The Italian Case of Google Mini Recognition Patterns

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges (ICPR 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNIP,volume 12666))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 2205 Accesses

Abstract

Kindness is a pro-social virtue, which evokes mixed feelings in the modern world. In Western culture, for example, kindness is always positive, but elitist. The Digital Revolution and the birth of artificial intelligence, such as the Google Mini, allowed the transition from elitist experience to mass experience. The study has an exploratory function and starts from the Man-AI interaction, in a provocative and oppositional conversational context created by the Human Being. In the research, it is hypothesized, therefore, that the synthesis of the artificial voice does not allow to characterize all the facets of the tone and the emotionality of the kindness. As a result, Artificial Intelligence is programmed to always respond in a “gentle” way, putting in place different facets of kindness, which are well detected in the emotionality and prosodic analysis, above all in the recognition of “pitch” speech pattern. While emotional tone analysis confirms the “understanding” of reading the communicative context of Artificial Intelligence. Among future perspectives it is highlighted how the study of these vocal patterns of artificial kindness can be a springboard for research on bullying, using the Google Mini Kindness tool.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Ballatt, J., Campling, P.: Intelligent kindness: Reforming the culture of healthcare. RCPsych publications (2011).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Bonnefon, J.-F., Feeney, A., Villejoubert, G.: When some is actually all: Scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts. Cognition 112(2), 249–258 (2009)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Caffi, C.: On mitigation. J. Pragmatics 31(7), 881–909 (1999)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. De Vignemont, F., Singer, T.: The empathic brain: how, when and why? Trends Cogn. Sci. 10(10), 435–441 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Eyben, F., Wöllmer, M., Schuller, B.: OpenSMILE - The Munich Versatile and Fast Open-Source Audio Feature Extractor. In: Proc, pp. 1459–1462. ACM, ACM Multimedia (MM), ACM, Florence, Italy (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Grice, H. P.: Logic and conversation. In Readings in language and mind. Blackwell (1975).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Hinton, D.E., Ojserkis, R.A., Jalal, B., Peou, S., Hofmann, S.G.: Loving-kindness in the treatment of traumatized refugees and minority groups: a typology of mindfulness and the nodal network model of affect and affect regulation. J. Clin. Psychol. 69(8), 817–828 (2013)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Hofmann, S.G., Grossman, P., Hinton, D.E.: Loving-kindness and compassion meditation: potential for psychological interventions. Clin. Psychol. Rev. 31(7), 1126–1132 (2011)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Holtgraves, T.: Yes, but... positive politeness in conversation arguments. J. Lang. Soc. Psychol. 16(2), 222–239 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  10. Hopkins, J.: Cultivating Compassion: A Buddhist Perspective. Broadway Books, New York, NY (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Hutcherson, C.A., Seppala, E.M., Gross, J.J.: Loving-kindness meditation increases social connectedness. Emotion 8(5), 720–724 (2008)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Kaundinya, A.S., Atreyas, N.S., Srinivas, S., Kehav, V., Kumar, N.M.R.: Voice enabled home automation using amazon echo. Int. Res. J. Eng. Technol 4, 682–684 (2017)

    Google Scholar 

  13. Mascaro, J.S., Darcher, A., Negi, L.T., Raison, C.L.: The neural mediators of kindness-based meditation: a theoretical model. Front. Psychol. 6, 109 (2015)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Neff, K.D.: Self-compassion: an alternative conceptualization of a healthy attitude toward oneself. Self and Identity 2, 85–101 (2003)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Ortony, A., Turner, T.J.: What‘s basic about basic emotions?. Psychol. Rev. 97(3), 315– 331 (1990).

    Google Scholar 

  16. Panda, B., Padhi, D., Dash, K., Mohantay, S.: Use of SVM classifier & MFCC in Speech Emotion Recognition System. Int. J. Adv. Res. Comput. Sci. Softw. Eng. (IJARCSSE), 2(3) (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Pang, B., Lee, L.: Opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Found. Trends® Inf. Retrieval, 2(1–2), 1–135 (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Passmore, J., Oades, L.G.: Positive psychology techniques: random acts of kindness and consistent acts of kindness and empathy. Coach. Psychol. 11(2), 90–92 (2015)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Yoon, E.J., Tessler, M.H., Goodman, N.D., Frank, M.C.: Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between kindness and informativity. In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2771–2776 (2016)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

    Concetta Papapicco

Authors
  1. Concetta Papapicco
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Alberto Del Bimbo

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Rita Cucchiara

  3. Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Stan Sclaroff

  4. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Giovanni Maria Farinella

  5. Cloud & AI, JD.COM, Beijing, China

    Tao Mei

  6. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Marco Bertini

  7. Computational Sciences Department, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico

    Hugo Jair Escalante

  8. Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Roberto Vezzani

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this paper

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this paper

Papapicco, C. (2021). Artificial Kindness The Italian Case of Google Mini Recognition Patterns. In: Del Bimbo, A., et al. Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12666. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68780-9_54

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68780-9_54

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-68779-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-68780-9

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Societies and partnerships

Search

Navigation