Human-driven multi-robot design process for social interactions with children on complex environments

Gonçalves, David; Arsénio, Artur

doi:10.1109/icara.2015.7081127

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“…Under the scope of the AHA project, we have been applying this process to the design of mobile robots targeting new user groups. This "nurse" mobile robot, although posing similar challenges as the ones described by Gonçalves and Arsenio [15], also adds new requirements. Elderly people, athletes and patients poses specific requirements that often differ from those for children in hospitals.…”

Section: Robot Design For Human Augmented Assistancementioning

confidence: 85%

“…Contrary to the Monarch robots, there is no multifunctional face on the nurse robots. [15]. In contrast to the professional look and feel for the nurse robot, the monarch robots are character-like, but not resembling any particular known artificial character.…”

Section: Ergonomics and Human Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This project has shown that the robot appearance, as well as its motion, and functionality, plays a very important role on engaging the attention of the learner [14]. Other authors incorporated the strict functional constraints imposed by complex environments (such as hospitals) and specific groups of users, into the robot design process [15].…”

Section: Service Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gonçalves and Arsenio [15] proposed a formal design process for building socially interacting robots within a group of children with special needs in a hospital environment. The design takes into consideration the input of the project partners.…”

Section: Robot Design For Human Augmented Assistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Robotics Enabled Augmented Health

Arsénio¹

2015

European Project Space on Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition and Biomedical Systems

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Nowadays it is increasingly important, for social and economic reasons, to provide augmented health assistance for people at home. This will mostly benefit some specific user groups, such as elderly, patients recovering from physical injury, or athletes. This chapter describes the application of robotics, under the scope of the Augmented Human Assistance (AHA) project, for assisting people health. Two complementary and interacting approaches are described. The first consists on a mobile robot nurse, that assists patients and elderly on their daily lives, such as for advising on medicine intake, or providing complementary biomedical sensing equipment for health monitoring. The other approach consists of multimodal feedback assistance through augmented reality, haptic sensing and audio, in order to guide and assist people on the execution of exercises at home.

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Section: Robot Design For Human Augmented Assistancementioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Ergonomics and Human Factorsmentioning

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Section: Service Roboticsmentioning

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Section: Robot Design For Human Augmented Assistancementioning

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Robotics Enabled Augmented Health

Arsénio¹

2015

European Project Space on Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition and Biomedical Systems

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“…In a way, all of them fall within our scope; the difference among them comes from the fact that some of them combine software and hardware (4-10), while others are usually only software (1)(2)(3). [43,60] offer exhaustive and historical reviews of robots. Specifically, in a healthcare context, we found that the most accurate definition is related to the central care concept.…”

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Social Robots in Hospitals: A Systematic Review

2021

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Hospital environments are facing new challenges this century. One of the most important is the quality of services to patients. Social robots are gaining prominence due to the advantages they offer; in particular, several of their main uses have proven beneficial during the pandemic. This study aims to shed light on the current status of the design of social robots and their interaction with patients. To this end, a systematic review was conducted using WoS and MEDLINE, and the results were exhaustive analyzed. The authors found that most of the initiatives and projects serve the elderly and children, and specifically, that they helped these groups fight diseases such as dementia, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), cancer, and diabetes.

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Can social robots help children in healthcare contexts? A scoping review

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Sutherland

Barco

et al. 2019

bmjpo

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ObjectiveTo review research on social robots to help children in healthcare contexts in order to describe the current state of the literature and explore future directions for research and practice.DesignScoping review.Data sourcesEngineering Village, IEEE Xplore, Medline, PsycINFO and Scopus databases were searched up until 10 July 2017. Only publications written in English were considered. Identified publications were initially screened by title and abstract, and the full texts of remaining publications were then subsequently screened.Eligibility criteriaPublications were included if they were journal articles, conference proceedings or conference proceedings published as monographs that described the conceptualisation, development, testing or evaluation of social robots for use with children with any mental or physical health condition or disability. Publications on autism exclusively, robots for use with children without identified health conditions, physically assistive or mechanical robots, non-physical hardware robots and surgical robots were excluded.ResultsSeventy-three publications were included in the review, of which 50 included user studies with a range of samples. Most were feasibility studies with small sample sizes, suggesting that the robots were generally accepted. At least 26 different robots were used, with many of these still in development. The most commonly used robot was NAO. The evidence quality was low, with only one randomised controlled trial and a limited number of experimental designs.ConclusionsSocial robots hold significant promise and potential to help children in healthcare contexts, but higher quality research is required with experimental designs and larger sample sizes.

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Human-driven multi-robot design process for social interactions with children on complex environments

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Robotics Enabled Augmented Health

Robotics Enabled Augmented Health

Social Robots in Hospitals: A Systematic Review

Can social robots help children in healthcare contexts? A scoping review

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