Influencing Health-Related Decision Making and Therapeutic Alliance with Robot Mobility and Deixis

Recent trends and developments in robotics have enabled socially assistive mobile robotic platforms to be deployed in everyday human lives. These robots have the ability to navigate to a user's location and engage in multimodal interactions to serve a variety of purposes such as promoting healt...

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Main Authors: Terzioglu, Yunus, Rebello, Keith, Bickmore, Timothy
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral sciences
Collaboration
Decision making
Navigation
Robots
Task analysis
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Summary:Recent trends and developments in robotics have enabled socially assistive mobile robotic platforms to be deployed in everyday human lives. These robots have the ability to navigate to a user's location and engage in multimodal interactions to serve a variety of purposes such as promoting health behavior change. We conducted a randomized two-factor experiment to study the utility of robot mobility and multimodal cuing in a collaborative meal assembly task. We found that robot mobility, proxemics, and deictic and verbal cuing have significant positive effects on compliance with the robot's food recommendations and resulting nutritional quality of assembled meals. These robot behaviors also led to stronger therapeutic alliance between the robot and the user and higher user engagement.
ISSN:1944-9437
DOI:10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309387