Nurse preferences of caring robots: A conjoint experiment to explore most valued robot features

Abstract

Both the COVID epidemic and increasing innovation have led to the growing involvement of robotic caregivers in nursing services. With the potential revolution in the computational power of artificial intelligence, Metzler et al. (2016) and Locsin (2017) have envisioned a future in which robots could become true professional collaborators of nurses. However, one of the main criticisms of the development of such skilled robots is that nurses seem to have very limited (or no) say in the development of robots for nursing (Archibald and Barnard, 2018;Eriksson et al., 2017). This may be explained by the limited expertise of nurses and the limited research on robotics. Glasgow et al. (2018) argued that nurses are missing critical opportunities to be involved in the design and development of future technology that could dramatically improve patient care. Even though nurses have historically been excluded from high-level decision-making, Robert (2019) affirmed that nurse participation in the design and deployment of telehealth robots is critical for the best use of the technology. Studying nurses' attitudes towards nursing robots is key because understanding nurses' preferences

Nurses' attitudes toward the use of robots in healthcare

“…We therefore believe that nurses who have worked with robots before may have held expectations of a reduced workload but witnessed robots' slow performance of tasks and are thus significantly biased in their perception of working with robots. Zrinyi et al (2022) also stated that "Due to the very low number of participants exposed to nursing robots, we were not able to conduct a separate analysis to support previous findings. Therefore, we could not confirm the positive views of nurses who had already worked with caring robots" (p. 4).…”

“…We read the article by Zrinyi et al ( 2022 ), titled “Nurse preferences of caring robots: A conjoint experiment to explore most valued robot features,” which was published in the Nursing Open on 27 June 2022. Zrinyi et al ( 2022 ) assessed nurses' potential perceptions of robots by examining previous studies and utilizing symbolic words used by nurses in reference to robots as responses that depict their impressions.…”

Competencies in the Robotics of Care for Nursing Robotics: A Scoping Review

“…With regard to the results obtained from the search in the first phase, it should be stressed that most of them are oriented towards usability [ 42 ], acceptability [ 43 , 44 ] and ethical implications [ 45 ] among professionals. In this sense, Stokes and Palmer [ 46 ] have claimed that AI or AI carebot activities must meet three conditions: “first, it cannot transgress the core values of nursing—i.e., caring.…”

A new kind of colleague for the future? Nurses’ evaluation of a service robot for inpatient care – A technology acceptance study

“…Beyond these practical examples, the broader research landscape con rms that nurses' acceptance of assistive robots is in uenced and moderated by a variety of factors [28,[36][37][38][39]. These can be broadly categorized into individual, technological, and organizational factors [36].…”