TY - GEN
T1 - Experiment protocol for human–robot interaction studies with seniors with mild cognitive impairments
AU - Aguiar Noury, Gabriel
AU - Tsekeni, Margarita
AU - Morales, Vanessa
AU - Burke, Ricky
AU - Palomino, Marco
AU - Masala, Giovanni L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - While assistive robotics (AR) have shown promise in supporting seniors with daily life activities and psycho-social development, evaluation of AR systems presents novel challenges. From a technical point of view, reproducing HRI experiments has been problematic due to the lack of protocols, standardization and benchmarking tools, which ultimately impairs the evaluation of previous experiments. On the other hand, working with seniors with cognitive decline presents a major design challenge for researchers, since communication skills, state of mind and attention of participants are compromised. To address these challenges, this paper presents practical recommendations and a protocol for conducting HRI experiments with seniors with mild cognitive decline (MCI).
AB - While assistive robotics (AR) have shown promise in supporting seniors with daily life activities and psycho-social development, evaluation of AR systems presents novel challenges. From a technical point of view, reproducing HRI experiments has been problematic due to the lack of protocols, standardization and benchmarking tools, which ultimately impairs the evaluation of previous experiments. On the other hand, working with seniors with cognitive decline presents a major design challenge for researchers, since communication skills, state of mind and attention of participants are compromised. To address these challenges, this paper presents practical recommendations and a protocol for conducting HRI experiments with seniors with mild cognitive decline (MCI).
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Experimental design
KW - Human–robot interaction
KW - Measurement and evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086303109&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-5784-2_20
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-5784-2_20
M3 - Conference proceedings published in a book
AN - SCOPUS:85086303109
SN - 9789811557835
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 243
EP - 253
BT - Human Centred Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of KES-HCIS 2020 Conference
A2 - Zimmermann, Alfred
A2 - Howlett, Robert J.
A2 - Jain, Lakhmi C.
PB - Springer
T2 - International KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems, KES-HCIS 2020
Y2 - 17 June 2020 through 19 June 2020
ER -