Skip to search boxSkip to navigationSkip to main content

Paving the way for culturally competent robots: a position paper

  • Barbara Bruno
    ,
  • Nak Young Chong
    ,
  • Hiroko Kamide
    ,
  • Sanjeev Kanoria
    ,
  • Jaeryoung Lee
    ,
  • Yuto Lim
  • University of Genoa
    ,
  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    ,
  • Nagoya University
    ,
  • Advinia Health Care
    ,
  • Chubu University
    ,
  • Softbank Robotics Europe
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well

Abstract

Cultural competence is a well known requirement for an effective healthcare, widely investigated in the nursing literature. We claim that personal assistive robots should likewise be culturally competent, aware of general cultural characteristics and of the different forms they take in different individuals, and sensitive to cultural differences while perceiving, reasoning, and acting. Drawing inspiration from existing guidelines for culturally competent healthcare and the state-of-the-art in culturally competent robotics, we identify the key robot capabilities which enable culturally competent behaviours and discuss methodologies for their development and evaluation.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 28/08/2017

Publication status

Published - 28/08/2017

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622572
  • Scopus: 85045851466

Host publication title

2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

Access to documents

Publication metrics