An Acceptance Test for Assistive Robots
An Acceptance Test for Assistive Robots
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DOI：
10.3390/s20143912
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发表时间：
2020-07-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Matellan Olivera, Vicente
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作者：
Martin Rico, Francisco;Rodriguez-Lera, Francisco J.;Matellan Olivera, Vicente
社会辅助机器人已被用于照顾老年人或依赖者，特别是患有神经系统疾病的患者，如自闭症和痴呆症。有一些建议，但没有标准化的机制来评估特定机器人是否适合特定的治疗。本文报告了评估的接受测试的辅助机器人适用于痴呆症患者。拟议的测试侧重于评估机器人在治疗过程中的适用性。该测试基于观察数据测量患者对机器人的拒绝。该测试将推荐什么样的机器人和什么功能可以用于治疗。这种方法的新奇是一个特定的验证过程的形式化，只考虑的人的反应的机器人被应用，并可以使用更有效地比现有的测试，这可能不足以评估援助机器人。该测试的可行性进行了测试，将其应用于一组痴呆症患者在一个专门的护理设施。
Socially assistive robots have been used in the care of elderly or dependent people, particularly with patients suffering from neurological diseases, like autism and dementia. There are some proposals, but there are no standardized mechanisms for assessing a particular robot's suitability for specific therapy. This paper reports the evaluation of an acceptance test for assistive robots applied to people with dementia. The proposed test focuses on evaluating the suitability of a robot during therapy sessions. The test measures the rejection of the robot by the patient based on observational data. This test would recommend what kind of robot and what functionalities can be used in therapy. The novelty of this approach is the formalization of a specific validation process that only considers the reaction of the person to whom the robot is applied, and may be used more effectively than existing tests, which may not be adequate for evaluating assistance robots. The test's feasibility was tested by applying it to a set of dementia patients in a specialized care facility.