Towards Robotic Empathy: A human centred approach to future AI machines

该项目旨在通过开发能够利用语言和非语言线索的计算模型，为未来的机器人配备同理心。随着人工智能研究的最新进展，机器人现在拥有更好的认知和功能技能，但它们缺乏社会情感技能。由于这些机器人有望在康复、教育和医疗等不同领域为人类提供帮助，因此赋予它们同理心的能力对它们的成功至关重要。该项目将推进机器学习、情感计算和人工智能方面的基础研究，以模拟人类行为、人格特征和情感，实现移情人机交互。

The project aims to equip future robots with empathy by developing computational models which can leverage from verbal and non-verbal cues. With recent advances in artificial intelligence research, robots now have better cognitive and function skills, but they lack socio-emotional skills. Since these robots are expected to provide assistance to humans across different domains including rehabilitation, education and health care, empowering them with empathetic abilities is important for their success. The project will advance fundamental research in machine learning, affective computing and artificial intelligence to model human behavior, personality traits and emotions for an empathetic human-robot interaction.