A Socially Assistive Robot Exercise Coach for the Elderly
A Socially Assistive Robot Exercise Coach for the Elderly
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DOI：
10.5898/jhri.2.2.fasola
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2013-01-01
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Mataric, Maja J.
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Fasola, Juan;Mataric, Maja J.
我们提出了一个社会辅助机器人（SAR）系统，旨在从事老年用户在体育锻炼。我们讨论了系统的方法，设计方法和实施细节，其中包括从心理学研究的内在动机的见解，我们提出了五个明确的设计原则SAR为基础的治疗干预。然后，我们描述的系统评估，包括一个多会话的用户研究与老年人（n = 33），以评估我们的SAR运动系统的有效性，并通过比较用户的评价类似的物理和虚拟体现教练调查的作用。结果验证了系统的方法和有效性，在激励老年人的体育锻炼，根据各种用户的性能和结果的措施。研究结果还显示，老年人在享受性、乐于助人和社会吸引力等方面明显偏好实体机器人教练而不是虚拟教练。
We present a socially assistive robot (SAR) system designed to engage elderly users in physical exercise. We discuss the system approach, design methodology, and implementation details, which incorporate insights from psychology research on intrinsic motivation, and we present five clear design principles for SARbased therapeutic interventions. We then describe the system evaluation, consisting of a multi session user study with older adults (n = 33), to evaluate the effectiveness of our SAR exercise system and to investigate the role of embodiment by comparing user evaluations of similar physically and virtually embodied coaches. The results validate the system approach and effectiveness at motivating physical exercise in older adults according to a variety of user performance and outcomes measures. The results also show a clear preference by older adults for the physically embodied robot coach over the virtual coach in terms of enjoyableness, helpfulness, and social attraction, among other factors.