Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
Despite the many recent achievements in developing and deploying social robotics, there are still many underexplored environments and applications for which systematic evaluation of such systems by end-users is necessary. While several robotic platforms have been used in gerontological healthcare, t...
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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11.04.2024
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Summary: | Despite the many recent achievements in developing and deploying social
robotics, there are still many underexplored environments and applications for
which systematic evaluation of such systems by end-users is necessary. While
several robotic platforms have been used in gerontological healthcare, the
question of whether or not a social interactive robot with multi-modal
conversational capabilities will be useful and accepted in real-life facilities
is yet to be answered. This paper is an attempt to partially answer this
question, via two waves of experiments with patients and companions in a
day-care gerontological facility in Paris with a full-sized humanoid robot
endowed with social and conversational interaction capabilities. The software
architecture, developed during the H2020 SPRING project, together with the
experimental protocol, allowed us to evaluate the acceptability (AES) and
usability (SUS) with more than 60 end-users. Overall, the users are receptive
to this technology, especially when the robot perception and action skills are
robust to environmental clutter and flexible to handle a plethora of different
interactions. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2404.07560 |