Towards Social HRI for Improving Children's Healthcare Experiences
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04652v1
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 15:49:54 GMT
- Title: Towards Social HRI for Improving Children's Healthcare Experiences
- Authors: Mary Ellen Foster and Ronald P. A. Petrick
- Abstract summary: The project aims to develop a social robot designed to help children cope with painful and distressing medical procedures in a clinical setting.
The robot will operate in a task environment where appropriate and safe interaction with children, parents/ caregivers, and healthcare professionals is required.
The project will incorporate co-design techniques involving all participant groups, and the final robot system will be evaluated in a two-site clinical trial.
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- Abstract: This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop a social
robot designed to help children cope with painful and distressing medical
procedures in a clinical setting. While robots have previously been trialled
for this task, with promising initial results, the systems have tended to be
teleoperated, limiting their flexibility and robustness. This project will use
epistemic planning techniques as a core component for action selection in the
robot system, in order to generate plans that include physical, sensory, and
social actions for interacting with humans. The robot will operate in a task
environment where appropriate and safe interaction with children,
parents/caregivers, and healthcare professionals is required. In addition to
addressing the core technical challenge of building an autonomous social robot,
the project will incorporate co-design techniques involving all participant
groups, and the final robot system will be evaluated in a two-site clinical
trial.
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