Designing Meaningful, Beneficial and Positive Human Robot Interactions with Older Adults for Increased Wellbeing During Care Activities

Pedell, Sonja; Constantin, Kathy; Muñoz, Diego; Sterling, Leon

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83620-7_4

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“…In our research, we have tried to bridge this gap by letting participants not only interact with the robot but also actively "administrate" his learning process and dialogue creation. In this way, we are going beyond "participatory design" [55] by evolving the interaction in "creative co-production". Our attempt to make Pepper a more age-friendly product allowed us to observe the generational communication misunderstandings in the relational square of older adults, active ageing centre employees, social gerontologists, and programmers, including diminished expectations about the physical and learning limits of older users, accompanied by a lower interest in the outcomes, failing to see the older user as a valid (future) customer with solicited and appreciated feedback.…”

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Materiality, Corporeality, and Relationality in Older Human–Robot Interaction (OHRI)

Vidovičová¹,

Menšíková²

2023

Societies

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This article presents interdisciplinary research on the social and technological aspects of interactions between older adults and the humanoid robot Pepper (SoftBank Robotics). Our case study is based on the regular meetings that are a part of an experimental intervention taking place at the Active Ageing Centre for older adults in Prague, run by the NGO Life 90. Through the methods of participant observation, unstructured interviews, analyses of video recordings from interventions with Pepper, and subsequent reflections on the “user” experience with the robot, we have unpacked the complexity of materiality and corporeality in older human–robot interactions (OHRI) in the context of age and gender. The project brings new applied knowledge, exploring OHRI using concepts relevant to gerotechnologies, informed by studies of materiality and ageing studies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Materiality, Corporeality, and Relationality in Older Human–Robot Interaction (OHRI)

Vidovičová¹,

Menšíková²

2023

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“…Carros et al [13] highlighted the need for a person who mediates interactions between social robots and people living with dementia because some functions of the robots may need to be explained and for encouraging people living with dementia to interact with the robot. Pedell et al [58] found the importance of understanding the context for the design of human-robot interactions with people living with dementia: designers should work out where the signiicance of interactions lies, the technology should support the interactions, facilitators should know about the functions of the technology that support this, and people living with dementia should be able to see this support in action. In this work, we set out to understand what good facilitation is by exploring how the diferent roles are enacted in shared interactions mediated by technology, and similarly to Unbehaun et al [72], to develop further understandings of the role of caregivers in the shared engagement with an interactive technology together with people living with dementia.…”

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Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care

Muñoz

Pedell

Sterling

2022

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Technologies can support the wellbeing of people living with dementia in residential care by fostering meaningful interactions through multimodal and playful features. This article presents the evaluation of A Better Visit, an app that aims to engage residents and visitors in shared activities. We define engagement in terms of dyadic interactions with the interface of the device, and interactions within the social context of the care home. We generated two Motivational Models that describe different perspectives of how people engaged with the system: the first was built with the design team, and the second was built using the first Motivational Model as sensitising concept for the analysis of data from four care homes that used the app for periods of three months. Our findings show that the facilitation of activities plays a relevant role for engaging in social interaction. We discuss how technologies can contribute to engaging people living with dementia in social interaction: firstly, facilitation can be understood as a concept that is supported by people and technology. Secondly, we discuss the influence of the social context of the setting and the understandings of the individual in how people assess engagement of the residents in social interaction.

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“…A handful of studies have been conducted on robot dance with older adults using a robot as a partner [11], performer (for entertainment purposes) [31] or instructor [15,17,[32][33][34][35]. For example, in [11], a human-sized robot consisting of a wheeled base and two anthropomorphic robotic arms was used for partner dancing.…”

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“…In [15,35], the Nao robot was used as a dance instructor for people living at residential care homes. Participants sat in a circle with Nao and were asked to follow the robot's dance movements to music.…”

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“…To date, a handful of robots have been used to facilitate dance as either: (1) robot dance partners [10][11][12] and/or (2) robot dance instructors [12][13][14][15][16]. A robot dance partner engages physically in collaborative dance with a user to form a dance pair (e.g., ballroom dancing) [10] or can provide physical assistance to a user when they have difficulties in completing the dance motion (e.g., with older adults) [11].…”

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Dances with Social Robots: A Pilot Study at Long-Term Care

Liang

Effati

et al. 2022

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Dance therapy can have significant physical, emotional and cognitive benefits for older adults. In particular, social robots can be developed to autonomously facilitate dance sessions to engage these individuals with the aim of improving quality of life. To successfully integrate and promote long-term use of social robots into long-term care homes for such recreational activities, it is important to explore both residents’ and staff’s perceptions of such robots. In this paper, we present the first pilot human–robot interaction study that investigates the overall experiences and attitudes of both residents and staff in a long-term care home for robot-facilitated dance sessions. In general, the questionnaire results from our study showed that both staff and residents had positive attitudes towards the robot-facilitated dance activity. Encouraging trends showed residents had higher ratings for statements on perceived ease of use, safety, and enjoyment than the staff. However, the staff had a statistically significantly higher rating for willingness to use the robots for dance facilitation. Some key statistical differences were also determined with respect to: (1) gender within the resident group (men had higher ratings for the robots being useful in helping facilitate recreational activities), as well as between staff and residents (resident men had higher perceived safety), and (2) prior robot experience (residents with limited prior experience had higher ratings on perceived ease of use and perceived enjoyment than staff with the same level of experience). The robot-facilitated dance activity was positively received by both older adults and staff as an activity of daily living that can enhance wellbeing while also being safe, easy to use and enjoyable.

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Designing Meaningful, Beneficial and Positive Human Robot Interactions with Older Adults for Increased Wellbeing During Care Activities

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Materiality, Corporeality, and Relationality in Older Human–Robot Interaction (OHRI)

Materiality, Corporeality, and Relationality in Older Human–Robot Interaction (OHRI)

Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care

Dances with Social Robots: A Pilot Study at Long-Term Care

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