Human-Centered Service Robotic Systems for Assisted Living

Papageorgiou, Xanthi S.; Chalvatzaki, Georgia; Dometios, Athanasios; Tzafestas, Costas S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00232-9_14

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“…While it is technically possible for that robot to transform the environment by bringing a bathtub to the user, this is obviously impractical. The robot can instead transform the user's state by bringing them closer to the bathtub (Dometios et al, 2017;Papageorgiou et al, 2019). This strategy of moving a user to assist them is similar to autonomous environmental manipulation, but now the user is being manipulated instead of the environment.…”

Section: Human Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In cases where users can perform some aspects of the task, a robot can also assist by supplementing a user's existing abilities. For example, if a user can walk but has difficulty balancing or navigating, a smart walker can be utilized to help the user navigate between locations (Papageorgiou et al, 2019;Sierra et al, 2019). Similarly, if a user has some control over their limbs, an exoskeleton robot can be used to provide extra support for day-to-day usage (Baklouti et al, 2008;Lim et al, 2015;Choi et al, 2018;Nabipour and Moosavian, 2018) or in therapeutic scenarios in order to help a user strengthen weakened muscles (Carmichael and Liu, 2013;Zignoli et al, 2019).…”

Section: Human Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Helping People Through Space and Time: Assistance as a Perspective on Human-Robot Interaction

2022

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As assistive robotics has expanded to many task domains, comparing assistive strategies among the varieties of research becomes increasingly difficult. To begin to unify the disparate domains into a more general theory of assistance, we present a definition of assistance, a survey of existing work, and three key design axes that occur in many domains and benefit from the examination of assistance as a whole. We first define an assistance perspective that focuses on understanding a robot that is in control of its actions but subordinate to a user’s goals. Next, we use this perspective to explore design axes that arise from the problem of assistance more generally and explore how these axes have comparable trade-offs across many domains. We investigate how the assistive robot handles other people in the interaction, how the robot design can operate in a variety of action spaces to enact similar goals, and how assistive robots can vary the timing of their actions relative to the user’s behavior. While these axes are by no means comprehensive, we propose them as useful tools for unifying assistance research across domains and as examples of how taking a broader perspective on assistance enables more cross-domain theorizing about assistance.

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Section: Human Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%