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Psychiatrists’ Views on Robot-Assisted Diagnostics of Peripartum Depression

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2021)

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Social robots are rising to prominence as tools in healthcare and mental healthcare. In this paper, we investigate robot-assisted diagnostics of peripartum depression (PPD) in women. To design robots that are accepted by users and comply with trustworthy Artificial Intelligence principles, we use semi-structured interviews to explore the views of potential stakeholders - psychiatrists. We aim to answer three research questions regarding 1) the usefulness of robots in the diagnosis of PPD, 2) potential ethical issues, and 3) the roles that robots and clinicians may play in the diagnostic process. Results show that psychiatrists are only willing to let robots take minor responsibilities, and feel that robots may be more useful in situations where there is a shortage of clinicians.

This project is partly funded by the WoMHeR Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden, and the project “The ethics and social consequences of AI & caring robots” in the WASP-HS program, Sweden.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Mengyu Zhong & Ginevra Castellano

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ayesha Mae Bilal & Fotios C. Papadopoulos

  3. Women’s Mental Health during the Reproductive Lifespan – WoMHeR, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Mengyu Zhong & Ayesha Mae Bilal

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  1. Department of Electronic and Communication Engineering, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

    Haizhou Li

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Wu

  4. Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Agnieszka Wykowska

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Hongsheng He

  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

    Xiaorui Liu

  7. School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Dongyu Li

  8. Social Cognition Human-Robot Interaction, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Jairo Perez-Osorio

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Zhong, M., Bilal, A.M., Papadopoulos, F.C., Castellano, G. (2021). Psychiatrists’ Views on Robot-Assisted Diagnostics of Peripartum Depression. In: Li, H., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_40

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