Social Presence in Evaluations for a Humanoid Robot and Its Effect on Children-Robot Relationship

Chen, Yi‐Chen; Gamborino, Edwinn; Fu, Li-Chen; Yueh, Hsiu-Ping; Yeh, Su‐Ling

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-78635-9_27

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“…Interestingly, aging is not always associated with more omission errors. For example, according to Zavagnin et al [30], among older individuals, only those with an average age of 80 years old (age range: 75-85) produce significantly more omissions than younger adults, but not those with an average age of 69 years (age range of [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74]. Specifically, age was only associated with increased omissions when targets were presented under high uncertainty (i.e., noisy conditions, [56]).…”

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“…Social presence, the perception of co-presence with another social agent, is the essence of social robots. Social presence has been implicated in various aspects of interpersonal interaction and can increase the intention to use a robot [64], enhance psychological consolations [65], facilitate rapport building [66], and guide human behavior efficiently [67]. Despite having these advantages of HRI, many improvements still need to be made before introducing social robots into the healthcare context, including voice recognition and accent interpretation [68], which have been rated the least reliable of features on social robots [16].…”

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Social Robots for Evaluating Attention State in Older Adults

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Sustained attention is essential for older adults to maintain an active lifestyle, and the deficiency of this function is often associated with health-related risks such as falling and frailty. The present study examined whether the well-established age-effect on reducing mind-wandering, the drift to internal thoughts that are seen to be detrimental to attentional control, could be replicated by using a robotic experimenter for older adults who are not as familiar with online technologies. A total of 28 younger and 22 older adults performed a Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) by answering thought probes regarding their attention states and providing confidence ratings for their own task performances. The indices from the modified SART suggested a well-documented conservative response strategy endorsed by older adults, which were represented by slower responses and increased omission errors. Moreover, the slower responses and increased omissions were found to be associated with less self-reported mind-wandering, thus showing consistency with their higher subjective ratings of attentional control. Overall, this study demonstrates the potential of constructing age-related cognitive profiles with attention evaluation instruction based on a social companion robot for older adults at home.

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