2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Socially Impaired Robots: Human Social Disorders and Robots’ Socio-Emotional Intelligence
Authors : Jonathan Vitale, Mary-Anne Williams, Benjamin Johnston
Published in: Social Robotics
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Social robots need intelligence in order to safely coexist and interact with humans. Robots without functional abilities in understanding others and unable to empathise might be a societal risk and they may lead to a society of socially impaired robots. In this work we provide a survey of three relevant human social disorders, namely autism, psychopathy and schizophrenia, as a means to gain a better understanding of social robots’ future capability requirements. We provide evidence supporting the idea that social robots will require a combination of emotional intelligence and social intelligence, namely
socio-emotional intelligence
. We argue that a robot with a simple socio-emotional process requires a simulation-driven model of intelligence. Finally, we provide some critical guidelines for designing future socio-emotional robots.