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Robots as Mental Well-being Coaches: Design and Ethical Recommendations
Get PDFThe last decade has shown a growing interest in robots as well-being coaches. However, insightful guidelines for the design of robots as coaches to promote mental well-being have not yet been proposed. This article details design and ethical recommendations based on a qualitative analysis drawing on a grounded theory approach, which was conducted with a three-step iterative design process which included user-centered design studies involving robotic well-being coaches, namely: (1) a user-centred design study conducted with 11 participants consisting of both prospective users who had participated in a Brief Solution-Focused Practice study with a human coach, as well as coaches of different disciplines, (2) semi-structured individual interview data gathered from 20 participants attending a Positive Psychology intervention study with the robotic well-being coach Pepper, and (3) a user-centred design study conducted with 3 participants of the Positive Psychology study as well as 2 relevant well-being coaches. After conducting a thematic analysis and a qualitative analysis, we collated the data gathered into convergent and divergent themes, and we distilled from those results a set of design guidelines and ethical considerations. Our findings can inform researchers and roboticists on the key aspects to take into account when designing robotic mental well-being coaches.The last decade has shown a growing interest in robots as well-being coaches. However, insightful guidelines for the design of robots as coaches to promote mental well-being have not yet been proposed. This article details design and ethical recommendations based on a qualitative analysis drawing on a grounded theory approach, which was conducted with a three-step iterative design process which included user-centered design studies involving robotic well-being coaches, namely: (1) a user-centred design study conducted with 11 participants consisting of both prospective users who had participated in a Brief Solution-Focused Practice study with a human coach, as well as coaches of different disciplines, (2) semi-structured individual interview data gathered from 20 participants attending a Positive Psychology intervention study with the robotic well-being coach Pepper, and (3) a user-centred design study conducted with 3 participants of the Positive Psychology study as well as 2 relevant well-being coaches. After conducting a thematic analysis and a qualitative analysis, we collated the data gathered into convergent and divergent themes, and we distilled from those results a set of design guidelines and ethical considerations. Our findings can inform researchers and roboticists on the key aspects to take into account when designing robotic mental well-being coaches
"Oh, Sorry, I Think I Interrupted You": Designing Repair Strategies for Robotic Longitudinal Well-being Coaching
No full textLongitudinal Evolution of Coachees’ Behavioural Responses to Interaction Ruptures in Robotic Positive Psychology Coaching
No full textPast, Present, and Future: A Survey of The Evolution of Affective Robotics For Well-being
No full textRecent research in affective robots has recognized their potential in supporting human well-being. Due to rapidly developing affective and artificial intelligence technologies, this field of research has undergone explosive expansion and advancement in recent years. In order to develop a deeper understanding of recent advancements, we present a systematic review of the past 10 years of research in affective robotics for wellbeing. In this review, we identify the domains of well-being that have been studied, the methods used to investigate affective robots for well-being, and how these have evolved over time. We also examine the evolution of the multifaceted research topic from three lenses: technical, design, and ethical. Finally, we discuss future opportunities for research based on the gaps we have identified in our review – proposing pathways to take affective robotics from the past and present to the future. The results of our review are of interest to human-robot interaction and affective computing researchers, as well as clinicians and well-being professionals who may wish to examine and incorporate affective robotics in their practices
VITA: A Multi-modal LLM-based System for Longitudinal, Autonomous, and Adaptive Robotic Mental Well-being Coaching
No full textRecently, several works have explored if and how robotic coaches can promote and maintain mental well-being in different settings. However, findings from these studies revealed that these robotic coaches are not ready to be used and deployed in real-world settings due to several limitations that span from technological challenges to coaching success. To overcome these challenges, this article presents VITA, a novel multi-modal LLM-based system that allows robotic coaches to autonomously adapt to the coachee's multi-modal behaviours (facial valence and speech duration) and deliver coaching exercises in order to promote mental well-being in adults. We identified five objectives that correspond to the challenges in the recent literature, and we show how the VITA system addresses these via experimental validations that include one in-lab pilot study (N = 4) that enabled us to test different robotic coach configurations (pre-scripted, generic and adaptive models) and inform its design for using it in the real world, and one real-world study (N = 17) conducted in a workplace over 4 weeks. Our results show that: (i) coachees perceived the VITA adaptive and generic configurations more positively than the pre-scripted one, and they felt understood and heard by the adaptive robotic coach, (ii) the VITA adaptive robotic coach kept learning successfully by personalising to each coachee over time and did not detect any interaction ruptures during the coaching and (iii) coachees had significant mental well-being improvements via the VITA-based robotic coach practice. The code for the VITA system is openly available via https://github.com/Cambridge-AFAR/VITA-system
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
InMoov-robotin suunnittelu autististen lasten tukiviittomien opetuskäyttöön
No full textRobots are being increasingly embedded in our lives, as their capacity for social operation increases. A potential future application for these social robots is therapeutic use, specifically with autistic children.
Children with autism have difficulties with communication and social behavior. They are an ideal user group for social robots as therapy tools, due to their interest in technology and preference for objects over humans. Robots have the potential to make difficult social situations more understandable and even enjoyable.
In this thesis, the social robot InMoov is used to teach assistive sign language to children with autism. Assistive sign language is an augmentative communication method often used by people with autism who have problems producing speech.
This thesis details research examining the success of the robot InMoov as a sign language tutor to autistic children. Overall the robot was successful as a sign language tutor. Several interaction methods were examined, but no conclusive effect of interaction method on the success rate was found. This thesis also introduces a design framework for the design of social robots. This design framework can be developed and utilized in the development of other social robots in the future.Robottien sosiaalisen operaation kapasiteetti kasvaa kovaa vauhtia, jonka myötä ne löytävät yhä enemmän tilaa elämistämme. Yksi tulevaisuuden robotiikan sovelluskohde on terapiakäyttö, etenkin autististen lasten kanssa.
Autistisilla lapsilla on hankaluuksia erityisesti kommunikaation ja sosiaalisen vuorovaikuttamisen kanssa. He ovat ideaalinen käyttäjäryhmä terapeuttisille sosiaalisille roboteille, johtuen heidän kiinnostuksestaan teknologiaa kohtaan, ja havaitusta mieltymyksestä esineisiin ihmisten sijaan.
Tässä diplomityössä InMoov-robottia käytetään tukiviittomien opetukseen autistisille lapsille. Tukiviittomat ovat puhetta tukevan kommunikaation muoto, jota autistiset ihmiset, joilla on puheen tuottamisen vaikeuksia, usein käyttävät.
Tämä diplomityö tutkii InMoov-robotin onnistumista tukiviittomien opettajana autistisille lapsille. Yleisesti ottaen robotti onnistui tukiviittomien opettamisessa. Robotilla tutkittiin erilaisia vuorovaikutusmetodeita, mutta eri metodeilla ei löydetty tilastollisesti merkittävää vaikutusta onnistumiseen. Tämä diplomityö esittelee myös viitekehyksen, jonka avulla voidaan suunnitella sosiaalisia robotteja. Viitekehystä voidaan kehittää ja käyttää tulevaisuudessa uusien sosiaalisten robottien suunnitteluun
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