The nursing literature shows that cultural competence is an important requirement for effective healthcare. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise be culturally competent, that is, they should be aware of general cultural characteristics and of the different forms they take in different individuals, and take these into account while perceiving, reasoning, and acting. The CARESSES project is an Europe-Japan collaborative effort that aims at designing, developing and evaluating culturally competent assistive robots. These robots will be able to adapt the way they behave, speak and interact to the cultural identity of the person they assist. This paper describes the approach taken in the CARESSES project, its initial steps, and its future plans.
@article{arxiv.1708.06276,
title = {The CARESSES EU-Japan project: making assistive robots culturally competent},
author = {Barbara Bruno and Nak Young Chong and Hiroko Kamide and Sanjeev Kanoria and Jaeryoung Lee and Yuto Lim and Amit Kumar Pandey and Chris Papadopoulos and Irena Papadopoulos and Federico Pecora and Alessandro Saffiotti and Antonio Sgorbissa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06276},
year = {2017}
}
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Paper presented at: Ambient Assisted Living, Italian Forum. Genova, Italy, June 12--15, 2017