Social Robots for Engagement in Rehabilitative Therapies

Winkle, Katie; Caleb-Solly, Praminda; Turton, Ailie; Bremner, Paul

doi:10.1145/3171221.3171273

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“…The activities are carried out in order to identify how participants change their opinion and perception, once the robotic application has been explained and had the opportunity to witness an in situ demonstration. The structure of the focus group, described below, was inspired on the work developed in [42].…”

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Expectation vs. Reality: Attitudes Towards a Socially Assistive Robot in Cardiac Rehabilitation

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Currently, Social Assistive Robotics (SAR) is widely explored in different areas and scenarios. In cardiac rehabilitation, SAR has been recently implemented as a tool to improve the quality of the procedures and support patients to boost their performance. As cardiac rehabilitation comprises numerous sessions, such systems must guarantee to be effective in the long term. Therefore, to achieve this goal, it is important to understand how users, namely patients and clinicians who mostly know the needs and the therapy environment, perceive this technology. In this context, this paper presents the assessment of the attitudes towards a social robot in order to evaluate the expectation of potential new users, and perception of users who interacted with the social robot during a period of 18 weeks performing cardiac rehabilitation. A total of 43 participants (28 patients and 15 clinicians) were included in the study, and acceptance and perception factors were evaluated through a modified UTAUT questionnaire model and open discussion sessions. Results show that 75% of patients have positive thoughts regarding the usefulness, utility, safety, and trust perceived of a social robot, and 80% of clinicians consider that the robot is a useful tool for cardiac rehabilitation. Similarly, a more positive perception was noticed after the users interacted with the robot. Furthermore, this perception study allows the enhancement of the social model of interaction in the future, aiming to provide a more natural interaction trough personalized features, increasing social abilities and engagement of the users during the therapy.

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Section: Clinicians Of the Studymentioning

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Expectation vs. Reality: Attitudes Towards a Socially Assistive Robot in Cardiac Rehabilitation

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“…For example, ascription of responsibility to the robot offers an applied/tangible measure of credibility, although this is limited given participants do not actually have to work with the robot as part of a therapy programme. The relationship development questions were taken from a previous study investigating engagement in HRI [27], and were included based on previous work identifying the importance of the therapist-patient relationship in therapeutic exercise engagement [7]. Finally, the genuineness question was included because HHI literature suggests a lack of genuineness may reduce persuasiveness, i.e.…”

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“…This is also true for the human counterparts on which such robots are typically based. For example, previous work investigating the role of therapists in patient engagement, in order to inform SAR design, identified the active role therapists take in persuading patients to engage with their exercises [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…In this paper we investigate whether persuasive strategies employed in human human interaction (HHI) can increase i) the persuasiveness of a social robot, measured objectively through participant behaviour, and ii) reported credibility/likeability of the robot. We do this in a laboratory study grounded in the context of therapeutic exercise instruction and encouragement, a real-world SAR application as noted above [7] [3] [4]. Few previous works identify this link between persuasiveness and assistance, and none to our knowledge specifically investigate the applicability of the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), a well established model of persuasion in HHI [8] [9] to HRI.…”

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Effective Persuasion Strategies for Socially Assistive Robots

Winkle

Lemaignan

Caleb-Solly

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2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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In this paper we present the results of an experimental study investigating the application of human persuasive strategies to a social robot. We demonstrate that robot displays of goodwill and similarity to the participant significantly increased robot persuasiveness, as measured objectively by participant behaviour. However, such strategies had no impact on subjective measures concerning perception of the robot, and perception of the robot did not correlate with participant behaviour. We hypothesise that this is due to difficulty in accurately measuring perception of a robot using subjective measures. We suggest our results are particularly relevant for the design and development of socially assistive robots.

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“…An extensive qualitative study with therapists was undertaken in order to understand social influence in therapy and how socially assistive robots might be used in this context. The study consisted of 5 focus groups (total 20 participants), 8 individual interviews and 4 therapy session observations (3 therapists, 4 patients); and led to a number of design implications/requirements for SARs based on therapists' expert knowledge and best practices [14]. A key result was the importance of therapists' social influence in encouraging the patient, which raises interesting questions for social robots designed to do the same thing, addressed in the next section.…”

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confidence: 99%