An empirical study on evaluating basic characteristics and adaptability to users of a preventive care system with learning communication robots

Kitakoshi, Daisuke; Okano, Takuya; Suzuki, Masato

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“…Randomized trial [2,3,11,48,55,56] Pilot study [12,13,14,21,26,31,35,39,40,43,44,45,46,47,53,54] Observational study [28,30] Preliminary studies for assessing usability or codesign choices [1,5,9,15,18,20,23,24,27,34,49] System proposal (no user study) [6,16,17,19,22,25,29,36,52] Study protocol [4,7,8,32,33,41] Field study [10,…”

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“…Hence, because of a limited understanding of how to design and implement e-coaching interventions for older adults, as well as limited evidence regarding their effectiveness in promoting healthrelated outcomes, we refrained from excluding further papers and kept all 56 for our analysis. In fact, among the 56 papers selected as eligible for the analysis, five reported results of randomized controlled trials [2,3,11,55,56] and one study was a clinical trial [48], six reported protocols for future randomized trials [4, 7, 8, 32, 33, 41], 16 presented results of pilot studies [12,13,14,21,26,31,35,39,40,43,44,45,46,47,53,54] and two were observational studies [28,30], while [38] presented a pre-post intervention study. Eleven presented the results of a preliminary assessment of a system in terms of usability or co-design choice [1,5,9,15,18,20,23,24,27,34,49], four [10,42,50,51] presented a field study for deriving the requirements of a coaching system, and nine presented only a proposal of a coaching system or an architectural implementation, without any user study [6,…”

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“…However, from Table II, we can conclude that the personalization of content is the most frequent technique implemented in the analyzed studies. Examples of content personalization in some research papers are: history of previous interaction of the user [2,11,19,20,25,47], barriers negotiation with users [3,30], ability of users to choose modalities for the interaction [6,12], content display based on personal needs and preferences [41,32,33,34,49,47,40], local news information [16], advice and recommendations for behavioral change based on the user's preferences and needs [26,49,50,51,55], or other [10,17,35]. It is worth noting that articles [24,38,34,53] had a minimized personalization of content (e.g., the system using only the user's name in its communication), and this was considered in the analysis but noted as a low degree of content personalization.…”

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“…Concerning the hardware, the most commonly reported cases were those of pedometers [1, 2, 9, 28, 32, 36, and 48] or accelerometer-based activity sensors [55,56] used to track physical activity. Many studies explored the use of robots equipped with a variety of sensors for motion or voice recognition [10,31,35,39,43,50,51,54], or environmental sensors to detect humidity, gas, and smoke conditions [52]. The authors in [41] did not specify the sensors used by the robot.…”

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Virtual Coaches for Older Adults’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

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Virtual Coaches, also known as e-coaches, are a disruptive technology in healthcare. Indeed, among other usages, they might provide cost-effective solutions for increasing human wellbeing in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional. This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches specifically aimed at improving or maintaining older adults' health in the aforementioned domains. Such digital systems assume various forms, from classic apps, to more advanced conversational agents or robots. Fifty-six articles describing a virtual coach for older adults and aimed at improving their wellbeing were identified and further analyzed. In particular, we presented how previous studies defined their virtual coaches, which behavioral change models and techniques they adopted and the overall system architecture, in terms of monitoring solutions, processing methods and modalities for intervention delivery. Our results show that few thorough evaluations of e-coaching systems have been conducted, especially regarding multi-domain coaching approaches. Through our analysis, we identified the wellbeing domains that should be addressed in future studies as well as the most promising behavior change models and techniques and coaching interfaces. Previous work illustrates that older adults often appreciate conversational agents and robots. However, the lack of a multidomain intervention approach in the current literature motivates us to seek to define future solutions.

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Section: Type Of Study Papersmentioning

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Virtual Coaches for Older Adults’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

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“…Darumasan ga koronda is a Japanese children's traditional game. Several research works have treated this game as a subject of human-computer interaction [11,12] or health care [13][14][15][16]. There are two roles in this game: the players and "it", where the players try to tag "it" while "it" is counting to ten.…”

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Multiple player detection and tracking method using a laser range finder for a robot that plays with human

2018

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We are developing a robot that can play an outdoor game with children. In realizing such a robot, the person detection and tracking methods play an important role. In this paper, we propose methods for improving person detection and tracking using a laser range finder (LRF). A problem facing player detection using an LRF during play is that detection of a player's body sometimes fails because of the posture of the player. Thus, we propose two improvements of the conventional person detection algorithm. One is to determine the body boundary when an arm overlaps the body, and the other is to choose the most probable object as the body among the detected objects. Another problem is how to track players who are hidden by other players. We introduce a new algorithm to robustly track a player even when the player is behind other players. We conducted three experiments. In the first experiment, we investigate the performance improvement by the proposed player detection algorithm. The second experiment proves that the proposed player-tracking algorithm can robustly track a player even after the LRF has lost that player. In the last experiment, we conduct the game Darumasan ga Koronda using the developed system and confirm that the system can perform the game without large problems.

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A Conceptual Approach to Enhance the Well-Being of Elderly People

Martinho

Carneiro

Nováis

et al. 2019

Progress in Artificial Intelligence

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The number of elderly people living alone is increasing. Consequently, a lot of research works have been addressing this issue in order to propose solutions that can enhance the quality of life of elderly people. Most of them have been concerned in dealing with objective issues such as forgetfulness or detecting falls. In this paper, we propose a conceptual approach of a system that intends to enhance the daily sense of user's well-being. For that, our proposal consists in a system that works as a social network and a smartwatch application that works unobtrusively and collects the user's physiological data. In addition, we debate how important features such as to detect user's affective states and to potentiate user's memory could be implemented. Our study shows that there are still some important limitations which affect the success of applications built in the context of elderly care and which are mostly related with accuracy and usability of this kind of system. However, we believe that with our approach we will be able to address some of those limitations and define a system that can enhance the wellbeing of elderly people and improve their cognitive capabilities.

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An empirical study on evaluating basic characteristics and adaptability to users of a preventive care system with learning communication robots

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Virtual Coaches for Older Adults’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Virtual Coaches for Older Adults’ Wellbeing: A Systematic Review

Multiple player detection and tracking method using a laser range finder for a robot that plays with human

A Conceptual Approach to Enhance the Well-Being of Elderly People

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