The Experience and Effect of Adolescent to Robot Stress Disclosure: A Mixed-Methods Exploration

Björling, Elin A.; Ling, Honson; Bhatia, Simran; Dziubinski, Kimberly

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_50

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“…Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and social robots can also engage people in natural interactions by leveraging their embodiment and social behaviors (Sebastian and Richards 2017;Gardiner et al 2017;Scoglio et al 2019;Riek 2016;Lane et al 2016;Suganuma et al 2018). For instance, a low-fidelity social robot developed by Björling et al (2020) was shown to reduce teens' stress level through self-disclosure activities. In comparison with human care providers, these agents can lessen the feeling of stigma and heighten the perception of anonymity to promote more honest and candid responses from patients.…”

Section: Interactive Technologies For Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being

Jeong

Aymerich-Franch

Arias

et al. 2022

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Despite the increase in awareness and support for mental health, college students’ mental health is reported to decline every year in many countries. Several interactive technologies for mental health have been proposed and are aiming to make therapeutic service more accessible, but most of them only provide one-way passive contents for their users, such as psycho-education, health monitoring, and clinical assessment. We present a robotic coach that not only delivers interactive positive psychology interventions but also provides other useful skills to build rapport with college students. Results from our on-campus housing deployment feasibility study showed that the robotic intervention showed significant association with increases in students’ psychological well-being, mood, and motivation to change. We further found that students’ personality traits were associated with the intervention outcomes as well as their working alliance with the robot and their satisfaction with the interventions. Also, students’ working alliance with the robot was shown to be associated with their pre-to-post change in motivation for better well-being. Analyses on students’ behavioral cues showed that several verbal and nonverbal behaviors were associated with the change in self-reported intervention outcomes. The qualitative analyses on the post-study interview suggest that the robotic coach’s companionship made a positive impression on students, but also revealed areas for improvement in the design of the robotic coach. Results from our feasibility study give insight into how learning users’ traits and recognizing behavioral cues can help an AI agent provide personalized intervention experiences for better mental health outcomes

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Section: Interactive Technologies For Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being

Jeong

Aymerich-Franch

Arias

et al. 2022

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“…Although virtual agents have been deployed into fully natural settings (e.g., [ 8 , 28 , 29 , 41 ]), autonomous conversation robots that are able to hold complex conversations that span over several minutes and on diverse topics have rarely been studied in natural domestic settings (a recent exception being [ 43 ]). Longer term studies either use the Wizard of Oz technique [ 42 ], have experts monitor in real time (e.g., collocated, [ 28 ]; or with video [ 44 ]), or deploy as kiosks in shared environments [ 37 , 45 ]. Perhaps this is because fully autonomous interactive assistive robots remain rare.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More autonomous solutions still often require structured environments with expert supervision (e.g. [ 20 , 45 ]), precluding domestic deployment. Such setups can diminish the validity of results (e.g., as with the Hawthorne effect [ 47 ]), as participants are interacting in highly controlled unnatural (e.g.…”

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Say what you want, I’m not listening!

González

Geiskkovitch

Young

2023

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We present a conversational social robot behaviour design that draws from psychotherapy research to support individual self-reflection and wellbeing, without requiring the robot to parse or otherwise understand what the user is saying. This simplicity focused approached enabled us to intersect the well-being aims with privacy and simplicity, while achieving high robustness. We implemented a fully autonomous and standalone (not network enabled) prototype and conducted a proof-of-concept study as an initial step to test the feasibility of our behaviour design: whether people would successfully engage with our simple behaviour and could interact meaningfully with it. We deployed our robot unsupervised for 48 h into the homes of 14 participants. All participants engaged with self-reflection with the robot without reporting any interaction challenges or technical issues. This supports the feasibility of our specific behaviour design, as well as the general viability of our non-parsing simplicity approach to conversation, which we believe to be an exciting avenue for further exploration. Our results thus pave the way for further exploring how conversational behaviour designs like ours may support people living with loneliness.

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“…Customizable robotic systems have been developed for a wide range of purposes, including dental procedures [28], mini-robot platforms [29], and disinfection [30]. Past efforts to develop low-cost social robotic platforms include EMAR V4 [31], Huggable [32], Dragonbot [33], TOFU [34], YOLO [20], and Romibo [35]. Costumizable robots' examples are Robot Diaries [38] (later on called Arts & Bots [37]) and Artbotics [39].…”

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FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

Alves‐Oliveira

Bavier

Malandkar

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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The social robotics market is appealing yet challenging. Though social robots are built few remain on the market for long. Many reasons account for their short lifespan with costs and contextspecificity ranking high amount them. In this work, we designed, fabricated, and developed FLEXI, a social robot embodiment kit that enabled unlimited customization, making it applicable for a broad range of use cases. The hardware and software of FLEXI were entirely developed by this research team from scratch. FLEXI includes a rich set of materials and attachment pieces to allow for a diverse range of hardware customizations that ensure the embodiment is appropriate for specific customer/researcher projects. It also includes an open-source end-user programming interface to lower the barrier of robotics access to interdisciplinary teams that populate the field of Human-Robot Interaction. We present an iterative development of this cost-effective kit through the lenses of case studies, conceptual research, and soft deployment of FLEXI in three application scenarios: community-support, mental health, and education. Additionally, we provide in openaccess the full list of materials and a tutorial to fabricate FLEXI, making it accessible to any maker space, research lab, or workshop space interested in working with or learning about social robots.

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The Experience and Effect of Adolescent to Robot Stress Disclosure: A Mixed-Methods Exploration

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being

Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being

Say what you want, I’m not listening!

FLEXI: A Robust and Flexible Social Robot Embodiment Kit

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