Robot Interface Design: The Giraff Telepresence Robot for Social Interaction

Casiddu, Niccolò; Cesta, Amedeo; Cortellessa, Gabriella; Orlandini, Andrea; Porfirione, Claudia; Divano, Alessandro; Micheli, Emanuele; Zallio, Matteo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18374-9_46

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“…Older adults are somewhat less accepting of robots assisting with personal care tasks (e.g., some ADLs such as grooming and dressing); however, if robots can safely and reliably be developed to assist with these tasks, they have potential to provide support to many older adults with age-related declines [13,82,83]. Healthcare robots also hold much potential in providing social supportsparticularly telepresence robotics that can facilitate social connection with remote family, friends, and healthcare providers [84][85][86][87].…”

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The Role of Healthcare Robotics in Providing Support to Older Adults: a Socio-ecological Perspective

Mois

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2020

Curr Geri Rep

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Purpose of ReviewIn this review, we provide an overview of how healthcare robotics can facilitate healthy aging, with an emphasis on physical, cognitive, and social supports. We next provide a synthesis of future challenges and considerations in the development and application of healthcare robots. We organize these considerations using a socio-ecological perspective and discuss considerations at the individual, care partner, community healthcare, and healthcare policy levels. Recent Findings Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the US population. Age-related changes and challenges can present difficulties, for older adults want to age healthily and maintain independence. Technology, specifically healthcare robots, has potential to provide health supports to older adults. These supports span widely across the physical, cognitive, and social aspects of healthy aging. Summary Our review suggests that while healthcare robotics has potential to revolutionize the way in which older adults manage their health, there are many challenges such as clinical effectiveness, technology acceptance, health informatics, and healthcare policy and ethics. Addressing these challenges at all levels of the healthcare system will help ensure that healthcare robotics promote healthy aging and are applied safely, effectively, and reliably.

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The Role of Healthcare Robotics in Providing Support to Older Adults: a Socio-ecological Perspective

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2020

Curr Geri Rep

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“…It is often argued that robots' potential as assistive technology to supplement human contact in care can increase individual autonomy and independence [3,[18][19][20][21]. Robot technology could, for instance, be an interface that connects older adults to social networks, such as their relatives, friends, and healthcare workers [22]. In a study of social robots with video call capability, Moyle et al [23] found that both family and professional caregivers of persons living with dementia experienced that robots reduced social isolation and increased connection by enabling residents and families to 'visit' each other.…”

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What do Older Adults Want from Social Robots? A Qualitative Research Approach to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Studies

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Tøndel²,

Kharas³

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Int J of Soc Robotics

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This study investigates what older adults want from social robots. Older adults are often presented with social robots designed based on developers’ assumptions that only vaguely address their actual needs. By lacking an understanding of older adults’ opinions of what technology should or could do for them–and what it should not do–we risk users of robots not finding them useful. Social and humanistic research on the robotization of care argues that it is important to prioritize user needs in technology design and implementation. Following this urgent call, we investigate older adults’ experiences of and approach to social robots in their everyday lives. This is done empirically through a qualitative analysis of data collected from six group interviews on care robots with health care service users, informal caregivers (relatives), and professional caregivers (healthcare workers). Through this “Need-Driven-Innovation” study we argue that, to secure a functional and valuable technology-fit for the user, it is crucial to take older adults’ wishes, fears, and desires about technology into account when implementing robots. It is also crucial to consider their wider networks of care, as the people in these networks also often interact with the assistive technology service users receive. Our study shows that more qualitative knowledge on the social aspect of human-robot interaction is needed to support future robot development and use in the health and care field and advocates for the crucial importance of strengthening the position of user-centered qualitative research in the field of social robotics.

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“…The authors reported that the robot incentivized the usage of the system but slightly lowered its overall acceptability. This work used the Giraff-X (a version of the Giraff teleoperated robot [66,67]) as an embodiment for a virtual caregiver at the elder's house.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Survey on Recent Advances in Social Robotics

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Over decades, social robotics has evolved as a concept that presently covers different areas of application, and interacts with different domains in technology, education, medicine and others. Today, it is possible to envision social robots in tasks that were not expected years ago, and that is not only due to the evolution of social robots, but also to the evolution of the vision humans have for them. This survey addresses recent advances in social robotics from different perspectives. Different contexts and areas of application of social robots are addressed, as well as modalities of interaction with humans. Different robotic platforms used in social contexts are shown and discussed. Relationships of social robotics with advances in other technological areas are surveyed, and methods and metrics used for the human evaluation of the interaction with robots are presented. The future of social robotics is also envisioned based on surveyed works and from different points of view.

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Robot Interface Design: The Giraff Telepresence Robot for Social Interaction

Cited by 14 publications

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The Role of Healthcare Robotics in Providing Support to Older Adults: a Socio-ecological Perspective

The Role of Healthcare Robotics in Providing Support to Older Adults: a Socio-ecological Perspective

What do Older Adults Want from Social Robots? A Qualitative Research Approach to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Studies

A Survey on Recent Advances in Social Robotics

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