TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Preliminary Validation of Social Assistive Humanoid Robot with Gesture Expression Features for Mental Health Treatment of Isolated Patients in Hospitals
AU - Arce, Diego
AU - Gibaja, Sareli
AU - Urbina, Fiorella
AU - Maura, Camila
AU - Huanca, Dario
AU - Paredes, Renato
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
AU - Pérez-Zuniga, Gustavo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Social and assistive robots have been widely discussed in the context of psychological interventions. These studies have confirmed that facial and body expressions increase perceived safety during human-robot interaction. In this paper, we present the design of a social assistive humanoid robot with articulated robotic arms intended to deliver telepsychological interventions. The design of the robot is presented, including the description of its features for interactive communication. The robot’s design and basic nonverbal communication were evaluated through an online behavioral experiment designed to examine the perceived valence and meaning of its gestures and the overall appraisal of its appearance. We found that the design of the telepresence robot was positively assessed by a sample (N = 34) of STEM-related participants according to Godspeed metrics. Moreover, we observed that the robot was able to perform gestures that were correctly identified and discerned in terms of their valence.
AB - Social and assistive robots have been widely discussed in the context of psychological interventions. These studies have confirmed that facial and body expressions increase perceived safety during human-robot interaction. In this paper, we present the design of a social assistive humanoid robot with articulated robotic arms intended to deliver telepsychological interventions. The design of the robot is presented, including the description of its features for interactive communication. The robot’s design and basic nonverbal communication were evaluated through an online behavioral experiment designed to examine the perceived valence and meaning of its gestures and the overall appraisal of its appearance. We found that the design of the telepresence robot was positively assessed by a sample (N = 34) of STEM-related participants according to Godspeed metrics. Moreover, we observed that the robot was able to perform gestures that were correctly identified and discerned in terms of their valence.
KW - Acceptability and Trust
KW - Gesture expressions
KW - Humanoid robots
KW - Social assistive robots
KW - Telepsychological interventions
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148687034
SN - 9783031246692
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 518
EP - 528
BT - Social Robotics - 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Cavallo, Filippo
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Fiorini, Laura
A2 - Sorrentino, Alessandra
A2 - He, Hongsheng
A2 - Liu, Xiaorui
A2 - Matsumoto, Yoshio
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
Y2 - 13 December 2022 through 16 December 2022
ER -