Needs and attitudes of Singaporeans towards home service robots: a multi-generational perspective

Acceptance of Robot-Era system: results of robotic services in smart environments with older adults (Preprint)

“…When an autonomous robot was used, the number of participants was low, and the results were not significantly positive [26] or the robot was a prototype device that provided only two services [27]. Finally, in all considered studies, only one robot, working in a single environment, was used.…”

“…Elderly individuals had a positive attitude toward the robotic services and reported that the reliability and efficiency of the robot in performing tasks should be high. The limitations of this study were that the robot used was a prototype that delivered only two services and had a low number of involved users [27].…”

“…Other studies evaluated the acceptance of a service robot by older adults after they interacted with it in a controlled laboratory setting [26][27][28]. Wu et al used the Kompai robot, that had nine functionalities, to investigate the acceptance by eleven older adults, six with mild cognitive impairments and five healthy adults.…”

“…For this reason, in recent years, many studies have been conducted to evaluate the acceptance of robots by elderly users [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30].…”

“…[20,21], or a vieo clip showing the robot's capabilities [22,25], or live demonstration performed by a researcher [23,24]. Second, some studies involved a small number of participants [26,27,30,31], and those studies conducted with many older adults had some limitations because users attended a single live demonstration without direct interaction with a robot [23]. In some studies, the experiment was conducted with a "Wizard of Oz" methodology (experiment in which subjects interact with a system that they believe to be autonomous, but which is controlled by a hidden person) [28], or the robot was tele-operated by the user [32].…”