"Pretending to be Okay in a Sad Voice": Social Robot’s Usage of Verbal and Nonverbal Cue Combination and its Effect on Human Empathy and Behavior Inducement
Inducing a user’s behavior through social interaction is a goal that a social robot aims to achieve. It has been argued that empathy has a strong effect on behavior inducement. In human-human interaction, it has been verified that the influence of a nonverbal cue on empathy outweighs that of a verba…