2024-03-28T20:15:42Zhttps://www.tdx.cat/oai/requestoai:www.tdx.cat:10803/6640882018-12-03T14:12:29Zcom_10803_183col_10803_202
TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
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Raya Giner, Cristóbal
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CRISTOBAL.RAYA@GMAIL.COM
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Ruiz Vegas, Francisco Javier
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Angulo Bahón, Cecilio
2018-12-03T14:04:13Z
2018-12-03T14:04:13Z
2018-11-14
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/664088
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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A contribution to the incorporation of sociability and creativity skills to computers and robots
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