Participatory Design of a Robotic Mental Well-being Coach

Axelsson, Minja; Bodala, Indu P.; Güneş, Hatice

doi:10.1109/ro-man50785.2021.9515356

Cited by 13 publications

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“…These findings provide further valuable evidence for the positive outcomes of employing a social robot as an intervention supporting people's well-being. Moreover, our results here add to previous studies [e.g., 33,42,105] that show the benefits of using robots for emotional support. Taken together with other results from this study (i.e., that people self-disclose increasingly more to a social robot over time and that people perceive a robot as more social over time), this study provides crucial evidence for establishing relationships with robots in health and care settings.…”

Section: Talking To Robots Positively Affects People's Well-beingsupporting

confidence: 84%

Human-Robot Relationship: long-term effects on disclosure, perception and well-being

Laban

Kappas

Morrison

et al. 2023

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Since interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is the extent to which people’s behavioural and emotional engagement with robots might develop from initial interactions with a robot, when a robot’s novelty is especially salient, and sustained over time. This challenge is particularly noticeable in interactions designed to support people’s wellbeing, with limited evidence for how social robots can support people’s emotional health over time. Accordingly, this research is aimed at studying how long-term repeated interactions with a social robot affect people’s self-disclosure behaviour toward the robot, perceptions of the robot, and how it affected factors related to well-being. We conducted a mediated long-term online experiment with participants conversing with the social robot Pepper 10 times over 5 weeks. We found that people self-disclose increasingly more to a social robot over time, and found the robot to be more social and competent over time. Participants’ moods got better after talking to the robot and across sessions, they found the robot’s responses to be more comforting over time, and they also reported feeling less lonely over time. Finally, our results stress that when the discussion theme was supposedly more emotional, participants felt lonelier and stressed. These results set the stage for addressing social robots as conversational partners and provide crucial evidence for their potential introduction as interventions supporting people’s emotional health through encouraging self-disclosure.

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Section: Talking To Robots Positively Affects People's Well-beingsupporting

confidence: 84%

Human-Robot Relationship: long-term effects on disclosure, perception and well-being

Laban

Kappas

Morrison

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…A study by Bodala and colleagues [47] employed a social robot delivering teleoperated mindfulness coaching for five weeks. Another example by Axelsson and colleagues [61] tested a robotic coach conducting positive psychology exercises, showing positive mood change after participation in the robotic intervention. Robotic interventions for people's wellbeing are rarely taking place in people's homes.…”

Section: Social Robots For Well Beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time

Laban,

Kappas,

Morrison

et al. 2023

Int J of Soc Robotics

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While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is the extent to which people’s behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained across time, since during initial interactions with a robot, its novelty is especially salient. This challenge is particularly noteworthy when considering interactions designed to support people’s well-being, with limited evidence (or empirical exploration) of social robots’ capacity to support people’s emotional health over time. Accordingly, our aim here was to examine how long-term repeated interactions with a social robot affect people’s self-disclosure behaviour toward the robot, their perceptions of the robot, and how such sustained interactions influence factors related to well-being. We conducted a mediated long-term online experiment with participants conversing with the social robot Pepper 10 times over 5 weeks. We found that people self-disclose increasingly more to a social robot over time, and report the robot to be more social and competent over time. Participants’ moods also improved after talking to the robot, and across sessions, they found the robot’s responses increasingly comforting as well as reported feeling less lonely. Finally, our results emphasize that when the discussion frame was supposedly more emotional (in this case, framing questions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic), participants reported feeling lonelier and more stressed. These results set the stage for situating social robots as conversational partners and provide crucial evidence for their potential inclusion in interventions supporting people’s emotional health through encouraging self-disclosure.

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“…Past works demonstrated that the human-like appearance of the robot influences the expectations of the users. For example, participants attributed human-like behaviors to humanoid robots, because they associated their shape with their functionalities [38]. On the other hand, the remaining papers in the review adopted a non-humanoid shape.…”

Section: A Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, the remaining papers in the review adopted a non-humanoid shape. In fact, a previous work [38] showed that participants who were asked to rank different robotic platforms (e.g., Jibo, Pepper, Miro) provided contradictory responses. Some of the participants preferred more humanoid robot shape, while other chose an abstract shape as the most suitable to be a robotic coach delivering wellbeing interventions.…”

Section: A Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the context of promoting wellbeing, having a robot that is endowed with the capabilities of both affect synthesis and affect detection is a key factor for a successful interaction. In fact, in [38], the authors reported that participants, in a participatory design study, remarked the need to endow the wellbeing robot coach with both the capabilities of emotion/empathy generation and emotion detection to be able to adapt to users.…”

Section: A Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Affective Robotics For Wellbeing: A Scoping Review

Spitale

Güneş

2022

2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW)

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Affective robotics research aims to better understand human social and emotional signals to improve humanrobot interaction (HRI), and has been widely used during the last decade in multiple application fields. Past works have demonstrated, indeed, the potential of using affective robots (i.e., that can recognize, or interpret, or process, or simulate human affects) for healthcare applications, especially wellbeing. This paper systematically review the last decade (January 2013 -May 2022) of HRI literature to identify the main features of affective robotics for wellbeing. Specifically, we focused on the types of wellbeing goals affective robots addressed, their platforms, their shapes, their affective capabilities, and their autonomy in the surveyed studies. Based on this analysis, we list a set of recommendations that emerged, and we also present a research agenda to provide future directions to researchers in the field of affective robotics for wellbeing.

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Participatory Design of a Robotic Mental Well-being Coach

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Human-Robot Relationship: long-term effects on disclosure, perception and well-being

Human-Robot Relationship: long-term effects on disclosure, perception and well-being

Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time

Affective Robotics For Wellbeing: A Scoping Review

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