Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07560v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:43:37 GMT
• Title: Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
• Authors: Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Angus Addlesee, Daniel Hernández García, Chris Reinke, Soraya Arias, Federica Arrigoni, Alex Auternaud, Lauriane Blavette, Cigdem Beyan, Luis Gomez Camara, Ohad Cohen, Alessandro Conti, Sébastien Dacunha, Christian Dondrup, Yoav Ellinson, Francesco Ferro, Sharon Gannot, Florian Gras, Nancie Gunson, Radu Horaud, Moreno D'Incà, Imad Kimouche, Séverin Lemaignan, Oliver Lemon, Cyril Liotard, Luca Marchionni, Mordehay Moradi, Tomas Pajdla, Maribel Pino, Michal Polic, Matthieu Py, Ariel Rado, Bin Ren, Elisa Ricci, Anne-Sophie Rigaud, Paolo Rota, Marta Romeo, Nicu Sebe, Weronika Sieińska, Pinchas Tandeitnik, Francesco Tonini, Nicolas Turro, Timothée Wintz, Yanchao Yu,
• Abstract summary: This paper is an attempt to partially answer the question, via two waves of experiments with patients and companions in a day-care gerontological facility in Paris with a full-sized humanoid robot endowed with social and conversational interaction capabilities. Overall, the users are receptive to this technology, especially when the robot perception and action skills are robust to environmental clutter and flexible to handle a plethora of different interactions.
• Score: 78.35311825198136
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite the many recent achievements in developing and deploying social robotics, there are still many underexplored environments and applications for which systematic evaluation of such systems by end-users is necessary. While several robotic platforms have been used in gerontological healthcare, the question of whether or not a social interactive robot with multi-modal conversational capabilities will be useful and accepted in real-life facilities is yet to be answered. This paper is an attempt to partially answer this question, via two waves of experiments with patients and companions in a day-care gerontological facility in Paris with a full-sized humanoid robot endowed with social and conversational interaction capabilities. The software architecture, developed during the H2020 SPRING project, together with the experimental protocol, allowed us to evaluate the acceptability (AES) and usability (SUS) with more than 60 end-users. Overall, the users are receptive to this technology, especially when the robot perception and action skills are robust to environmental clutter and flexible to handle a plethora of different interactions.

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