The influence of a socially assistive robot on mood, anxiety, and arousal in children.

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly K. Crossman ◽  
Alan E. Kazdin ◽  
Elizabeth R. Kitt
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

scholarly journals The design of Lil’Flo, a socially assistive robot for upper extremity motor assessment and rehabilitation in the community via telepresence

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 205566832110018
Author(s):  
Michael J Sobrepera ◽  
Vera G Lee ◽  
Michelle J Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Motor Rehabilitation ◽  
Rehabilitation Care ◽  
Rehabilitation Professionals ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot ◽  
Assistive Robotic

Introduction We present Lil’Flo, a socially assistive robotic telerehabilitation system for deployment in the community. As shortages in rehabilitation professionals increase, especially in rural areas, there is a growing need to deliver care in the communities where patients live, work, learn, and play. Traditional telepresence, while useful, fails to deliver the rich interactions and data needed for motor rehabilitation and assessment. Methods We designed Lil’Flo, targeted towards pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and brachial plexus injuries using results from prior usability studies. The system combines traditional telepresence and computer vision with a humanoid, who can play games with patients and guide them in a present and engaging way under the supervision of a remote clinician. We surveyed 13 rehabilitation clinicians in a virtual usability test to evaluate the system. Results The system is more portable, extensible, and cheaper than our prior iteration, with an expressive humanoid. The virtual usability testing shows that clinicians believe Lil’Flo could be deployed in rural and elder care facilities and is more capable of remote stretching, strength building, and motor assessments than traditional video only telepresence. Conclusions Lil’Flo represents a novel approach to delivering rehabilitation care in the community while maintaining the clinician-patient connection.

Designing an Expressive Head for a Help Requesting Socially Assistive Robot

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
Tim van der Grinten ◽  
Steffen Müller ◽  
Martin Westhoven ◽  
Sascha Wischniewski ◽  
Andrea Scheidig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Month-Long, In-Home Socially Assistive Robot for Children with Diverse Needs

2020 ◽  
pp. 608-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlyn Clabaugh ◽  
Shomik Jain ◽  
Balasubramanian Thiagarajan ◽  
Zhonghao Shi ◽  
Leena Mathur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

scholarly journals Robotics enabled learning patterns: A Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dough
Keyword(s):  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Personal Robots ◽  
Individual Consideration ◽  
Extensive Class ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Folks need the best for their kids' training and regularly grumble about extensive class sizes and the absence of individual consideration. Goren Gordon, a manmade brainpower analyst from Tel Aviv University who runs the Curiosity Lab there, is the same. He and his wife invest as much energy as they can with their kids, however there are still times when their children are separated from everyone else or unsupervised. At those times, they'd like their kids to have a friend to learn and play with, Gordon says. That is the situation, regardless of the possibility that that buddy is a robot. Working in the Personal Robots Group at MIT, drove by Cynthia Breazeal, Gordon was a piece of a group that built up a socially assistive robot called Tega that is intended to serve as a one-on-one associate learner in or outside of the classroom.

scholarly journals Studying robots outside the lab: HRI as ethnography

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Blond
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Assistive Robot ◽  
Socially Assistive Robot

Abstract As more and more robots enter our social world, there is a strong need for further field studies of humanrobot interaction. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of the implementation of a South Korean socially assistive robot in Danish elderly care, this paper argues that empirical and ethnographic studies will enhance the understanding of the adaptation of robots in real-life settings. Furthermore, the paper emphasizes how users and the context of use matters to this adaptation, as it is shown that roboticists are unable to control how their designs are implemented and how the sociality of social robots is inscribed by its users in practice. This paper can be seen as a contribution to long-term studies of HRI. It presents the challenges of robot adaptation in practice and discusses the limitations of the present conceptual understanding of human-robot relations. The ethnographic data presented herein encourage a move away from static and linear descriptions of the implementation process toward more contextual and relational accounts of HRI.

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