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SUMMARY:Emotion Regulation in Human-Robot Interaction: Insights from Video
  and Game Simulations
DESCRIPTION:Lesong Jia (University of Pittsburgh); Jackie Ayoub, Danyang T
 ian, Miao Song, and Ehsan Moradi-Pari (Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.)
 ; and Na Du (University of Pittsburgh)\n\nAs robots increasingly evolve fr
 om functional service providers into social agents within smart city envir
 onments, the ability to regulate human emotions during human-robot interac
 tion (HRI) has become a critical research focus. This study examines how d
 ifferent robot-provided emotion regulation strategies—empathetic, non-empa
 thetic, and no regulation—influence users' emotional responses, decision-m
 aking, and perceptions of trust and interaction quality across both positi
 ve and negative emotional contexts. We conducted two complementary studies
 : a video-based simulation involving 240 participants and a game-based sim
 ulation involving 150 participants. Results demonstrated that empathetic r
 egulation enhanced suggestion acceptance and trust in positive scenarios, 
 while non-empathetic regulation supported more rational decision-making in
  negative scenarios. Furthermore, video-based simulations elicited stronge
 r emotional arousal and valence shifts, whereas game-based simulations, de
 spite weaker emotional triggers, provided greater ecological validity. Acr
 oss both methods, participants’ emotional states significantly impacted th
 eir evaluations of the robot and the interaction. These findings underscor
 e the importance of adapting emotion regulation strategies to emotional co
 ntext and offer methodological guidance for simulation-based research in e
 motionally aware HRI systems.\n\nTrack: User Experience\n\nMini-Conference
 s: UX Mini-Conference\n\nSession Chair: Sakshi  Taori (Virginia Tech Polyt
 echnic Institute and State University)\n\n
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