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Mosu Buddy: Mourning Support Robot

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The pandemic increased the number of people in mourning and safety protocols interfered with rituals and customs people were used to when a loved one passed away. This can lead to a complicated grief process. Mosu Buddy was designed to accompany a person going through a period of grief and help them overcome this process. The user can interact with Mosu with its different activities and functionalities to help them cope with the loss of a loved one.

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        HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
        March 2023
        612 pages
        ISBN:9781450399708
        DOI:10.1145/3568294

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