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Design and Preliminary Validation of Social Assistive Humanoid Robot with Gesture Expression Features for Mental Health Treatment of Isolated Patients in Hospitals

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2022)

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Social and assistive robots have been widely discussed in the context of psychological interventions. These studies have confirmed that facial and body expressions increase perceived safety during human-robot interaction. In this paper, we present the design of a social assistive humanoid robot with articulated robotic arms intended to deliver telepsychological interventions. The design of the robot is presented, including the description of its features for interactive communication. The robot’s design and basic nonverbal communication were evaluated through an online behavioral experiment designed to examine the perceived valence and meaning of its gestures and the overall appraisal of its appearance. We found that the design of the telepresence robot was positively assessed by a sample (N = 34) of STEM-related participants according to Godspeed metrics. Moreover, we observed that the robot was able to perform gestures that were correctly identified and discerned in terms of their valence.

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Acknowledgment

The authors wish to thank the National Fund for Scientific, Technological Development and Technological Innovation (FONDECYT) through its national program PROCIENCIA (160-2020-FONDECYT) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) through its funding program CAP (PI0516 - ID 627) for providing the means and resources for this research and development.

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    Diego Arce, Fiorella Urbina, Dario Huanca, Francisco Cuellar & Gustavo Pérez-Zuniga

  2. Department of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru

    Sareli Gibaja, Camila Maura & Renato Paredes

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Arce, D. et al. (2022). Design and Preliminary Validation of Social Assistive Humanoid Robot with Gesture Expression Features for Mental Health Treatment of Isolated Patients in Hospitals. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_46

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