Preserving dignity in patient caregiver relationships using moral emotions and robots
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Arkin, Ronald C.; Scheutz, Matthias; Tickle-Degnen, Linda
- Source
- 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on. :1-5 May, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Ethics
Parkinson's disease
Robot sensing systems
Computational modeling
Psychology
Parkinson's Disease
moral emotions
human dignity
intelligent robots
- Language
This paper provides an overview of an ongoing NSF project that is intended to improve the long-term quality of care for patients suffering from early stage Parkinson's disease. Due to facial masking in the patient, a stigmatization often occurs in their relationship with the caregiver due to the inability to adequately perceive the patient's emotional state. We are developing robot co-mediators to assist in the transmission of this information through the use of artificial moral emotions that trigger suitable proxemic expressions in the robot, with the goal of ensuring that the quality of the patient-caregiver relationship is preserved.