Incorporating guidelines for health assistance into a socially intelligent robot

The world population is getting older and more and more people suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes. The need for medical (self-)care therefore increases, and we think a personal (robot) assistant could help. This paper gives guidelines for self-care that supports and shows how it could be...

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Main Authors: Looije, R., Cnossen, F., Neerinex, M.A.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Blood
Diabetes
Guidelines
Human robot interaction
Insulin
Intelligent robots
Medical robotics
Pancreas
Senior citizens
Sugar
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Summary:The world population is getting older and more and more people suffer from a chronic disease such as diabetes. The need for medical (self-)care therefore increases, and we think a personal (robot) assistant could help. This paper gives guidelines for self-care that supports and shows how it could be incorporated in a (embodied) personal assistant. These guidelines were derived from motivational interviewing, persuasive technology, and from existing guidelines for personal assistants. Questions this paper addresses include: Is it possible to incorporate them in a personal assistant? Can a robot have the same kind of dialogs as a text interface? A first experiment, conducted with young participants, showed that the guidelines were best expressed in a socially intelligent iCat in comparison with a nonsocially intelligent iCat, a social and nonsocially intelligent Tiggie, and a text interface. Furthermore it showed that people indeed preferred the iCat over the text interface, possibly because the iCat's social intelligence
ISSN:1944-9445
1944-9437
DOI:10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314441