Measuring the Effectiveness of Biomimetic Robots as Therapeutic Tools: Translating the Felt Security Scale from English to Japanese

• Published in: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Vol. 11556; pp. 63 - 75
• Main Authors: Collins, Emily C., Prescott, Tony J., Yoshikawa, Yoichiro, Ishiguro, Hiroshi
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2019; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Cross-cultural; Felt security scale; HRI; Japanese

Biomimetic robots that resemble companion animals, and that replicate aspects of animal social behavior, could play a useful therapeutic role in the treatment of disorders such as anxiety and depression, and could act as an alternative or complement to animal-assisted therapy (AAT). Previous work in...