A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots

This dissertation contains the research and work completed by the PhD candidate on the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots. Both skills can be directly related with empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. In this form, thi...

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Autor: Raya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Infants -- Malalties -- Tractament
Robots -- Ús terapèutic
Robots -- Disseny i construcció
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spelling A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robotsRaya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850Infants -- Malalties -- TractamentRobots -- Ús terapèuticRobots -- Disseny i construccióÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::InformàticaThis dissertation contains the research and work completed by the PhD candidate on the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots. Both skills can be directly related with empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. In this form, this research can be contextualized in the framework of recent developments towards the achievement of empathy machines. The first challenge at hands refers to designing pioneering techniques based on the use of social robots to improve user experience interacting with them. In particular, research focus is on eliminating or minimizing pain and anxiety as well as loneliness and stress of long-term hospitalized child patients. This challenge is approached by developing a cloud-based robotics architecture to effectively develop complex tasks related to hospitalized children assistance. More specifically, a multiagent learning system is introduced based on a combination of machine learning and cloud computing using low-cost robots (Innvo labs's Pleo rb). Moreover, a wireless communication system is also developed for the Pleo robot in order to help the health professional who conducts therapy with the child, monitoring, understanding, and controlling Pleo behavior at any moment. As a second challenge, a new formulation of the concept of creativity is proposed in order to empower computers with. Based on previous well established theories from Boden and Wiggins, this thesis redefines the formal mechanism of exploratory and transformational creativity in a way which facilitates the computational implementation of these mechanisms in Creativity Support Systems. The proposed formalization is applied and validated on two real cases: the first, about chocolate designing, in which a novel and flavorful combination of chocolate and fruit is generated. The second case is about the composition of a single voice tune of reel using ABC notation.Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaRuiz Vegas, Francisco JavierAngulo Bahón, Cecilio20182018-11-1420182018-12-10doctoral thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/125505https://dx.doi.org/10.5821/dissertation-2117-125505reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1255052026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
title A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
spellingShingle A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
Raya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850
Infants -- Malalties -- Tractament
Robots -- Ús terapèutic
Robots -- Disseny i construcció
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica
title_short A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
title_full A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
title_fullStr A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
title_full_unstemmed A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
title_sort A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Raya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850
author Raya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850
author_facet Raya Giner, Cristóbal|||0000-0003-1483-4850
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ruiz Vegas, Francisco Javier
Angulo Bahón, Cecilio
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Infants -- Malalties -- Tractament
Robots -- Ús terapèutic
Robots -- Disseny i construcció
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica
topic Infants -- Malalties -- Tractament
Robots -- Ús terapèutic
Robots -- Disseny i construcció
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica
description This dissertation contains the research and work completed by the PhD candidate on the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots. Both skills can be directly related with empathy, which is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. In this form, this research can be contextualized in the framework of recent developments towards the achievement of empathy machines. The first challenge at hands refers to designing pioneering techniques based on the use of social robots to improve user experience interacting with them. In particular, research focus is on eliminating or minimizing pain and anxiety as well as loneliness and stress of long-term hospitalized child patients. This challenge is approached by developing a cloud-based robotics architecture to effectively develop complex tasks related to hospitalized children assistance. More specifically, a multiagent learning system is introduced based on a combination of machine learning and cloud computing using low-cost robots (Innvo labs's Pleo rb). Moreover, a wireless communication system is also developed for the Pleo robot in order to help the health professional who conducts therapy with the child, monitoring, understanding, and controlling Pleo behavior at any moment. As a second challenge, a new formulation of the concept of creativity is proposed in order to empower computers with. Based on previous well established theories from Boden and Wiggins, this thesis redefines the formal mechanism of exploratory and transformational creativity in a way which facilitates the computational implementation of these mechanisms in Creativity Support Systems. The proposed formalization is applied and validated on two real cases: the first, about chocolate designing, in which a novel and flavorful combination of chocolate and fruit is generated. The second case is about the composition of a single voice tune of reel using ABC notation.
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