Older Adults Living With Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities

Ostrowski, Anastasia K.; DiPaola, Daniella; Partridge, Erin; Park, Hae Won; Breazeal, Cynthia

doi:10.1109/mra.2019.2905234

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“…Processes at the community and society level impact on how relationships evolve and function, whereas perceptions of support help determine our experience of social connectedness (thus we can feel lonely in a crowd or together in solitude). The impacts of relationships with robots need to be analyzed and understood within this broad and complex social and psychological context ( Reis et al., 2000 ; van Oost and Reed, 2011 ; Holt-Lunstad, 2018 ; Ostrowski et al., 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A study of the use of the Sony Aibo robot dog in a residential care home found a positive impact on the experience of loneliness similar to that generated by interaction with a real dog ( Banks et al., 2008 ). Recent work on social robots as interventions for mental health also indicates the potential for the affective components of human-robot interaction to generate emotional comfort and to scaffold feelings of self-worth ( Ostrowski et al., 2019 ; Kabacińska et al., 2020 ). The effectiveness of robots as social companions can also be improved by adapting their cognitive architectures and capabilities to suit specific populations, such as people living with dementia ( Perugia et al., 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…By definition, social robots support communication and interaction and can be used to support social behaviors both between the user and the robot (e.g., companionship) and by acting as catalysts, or scaffolds, for human-human interaction. As one example of the latter, Ostrowski et al. (2019) used a participatory, mixed methods approach to study robots as tools for human connectedness in an older adult community, finding that robots prompted conversations between residents and drew them into the community space.…”

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“…ref. [8,9,[16][17][18][19][20][21]). Autonomous systems such as social robots can support care recipients in a variety of ways but also support their caregivers' physical and mental health (see ref.…”

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As social robots are increasingly introduced into health interventions, one potential area where they might prove valuable is in supporting people’s psychological health through conversation. Given the importance of self-disclosure for psychological health, this study assessed the viability of using social robots for eliciting rich disclosures that identify needs and emotional states in human interaction partners. Three within-subject experiments were conducted with participants interacting with another person, a humanoid social robot, and a disembodied conversational agent (voice assistant). We performed a number of objective evaluations of disclosures to these three agents via speech content and voice analyses and also probed participants’ subjective evaluations of their disclosures to three agents. Our findings suggest that participants overall disclose more to humans than artificial agents, that agents’ embodiment influences disclosure quantity and quality, and that people are generally aware of differences in their personal disclosures to three agents studied here. Together, the findings set the stage for further investigation into the psychological underpinnings of self-disclosures to artificial agents and their potential role in eliciting disclosures as part of mental and physical health interventions.

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“…If we take the first issue discussed in the preceding section, what we are doing is referring to the possibility–in some cases welcomed, in others indeed feared–that specific groups of human beings might develop feelings for robots. More specifically, there is a typology of relationships that emerge, i.e., by persons with mental impairments or by elderly people with affective difficulties or, still, by persons addicted to robot companion and/or sex robots ( Sharkey, 2014 ; Bendel, 2017 ; Balistreri, 2018 ; Ostrowski et al, 2019 ; Bisconti Lucidi and Piermattei, 2020 ; Jecker, 2020 ).…”

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Robot Care Ethics Between Autonomy and Vulnerability: Coupling Principles and Practices in Autonomous Systems for Care

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Technological developments involving robotics and artificial intelligence devices are being employed evermore in elderly care and the healthcare sector more generally, raising ethical issues and practical questions warranting closer considerations of what we mean by “care” and, subsequently, how to design such software coherently with the chosen definition. This paper starts by critically examining the existing approaches to the ethical design of care robots provided by Aimee van Wynsberghe, who relies on the work on the ethics of care by Joan Tronto. In doing so, it suggests an alternative to their non-principled approach, an alternative suited to tackling some of the issues raised by Tronto and van Wynsberghe, while allowing for the inclusion of two orientative principles. Our proposal centres on the principles of autonomy and vulnerability, whose joint adoption we deem able to constitute an original revision of a bottom-up approach in care ethics. Conclusively, the ethical framework introduced here integrates more traditional approaches in care ethics in view of enhancing the debate regarding the ethical design of care robots under a new lens.

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Older Adults Living With Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities

Cited by 55 publications

References 13 publications

Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships

Are friends electric? The benefits and risks of human-robot relationships

Tell me more! Assessing interactions with social robots from speech

Robot Care Ethics Between Autonomy and Vulnerability: Coupling Principles and Practices in Autonomous Systems for Care

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