TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring Older Adults' Acceptance, Needs, and Design Requirements towards Applying Social Robots in a Rehabilitation Context.
AU - Liu, Baisong
AU - Tetteroo, Daniel
AU - Timmermans, Annick
AU - Markopoulos, Panos
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper presents a qualitative study that uses video prototypes and interviews to explore older adults' acceptance, needs, and design requirements towards a social robotic application for physical rehabilitation. Our study identified the benefits of applying social robots (SR) in physical rehabilitation. Further, we discovered participants' preference for an anthropomorphic social robot design. The data revealed a desire for social interaction could increase motivation for older adults to engage in an active lifestyle and social robot acceptance. However, participants showed low motivation for technology adoption and negatively anthropomorphize the social robot, which lowers acceptance for their application. This work complements the current user-centered explorations with SR in rehabilitation, and provides considerations for SR design for rehabilitative applications.
AB - This paper presents a qualitative study that uses video prototypes and interviews to explore older adults' acceptance, needs, and design requirements towards a social robotic application for physical rehabilitation. Our study identified the benefits of applying social robots (SR) in physical rehabilitation. Further, we discovered participants' preference for an anthropomorphic social robot design. The data revealed a desire for social interaction could increase motivation for older adults to engage in an active lifestyle and social robot acceptance. However, participants showed low motivation for technology adoption and negatively anthropomorphize the social robot, which lowers acceptance for their application. This work complements the current user-centered explorations with SR in rehabilitation, and provides considerations for SR design for rehabilitative applications.
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U2 - 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900804
DO - 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900804
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 1077
EP - 1084
BT - RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
ER -