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User—robot personality matching and assistive robot behavior adaptation for post-stroke rehabilitation therapy

User—robot personality matching and assistive robot behavior adaptation for post-stroke... This paper describes a hands-off socially assistive therapist robot designed to monitor, assist, encourage, and socially interact with post-stroke users engaged in rehabilitation exercises. We investigate the role of the robot’s personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversion–introversion of the robot and the user. We also demonstrate a behavior adaptation system capable of adjusting its social interaction parameters (e.g., interaction distances/proxemics, speed, and vocal content) toward customized post-stroke rehabilitation therapy based on the user’s personality traits and task performance. Three validation experiment sets are described. The first maps the user’s extroversion–introversion personality dimension to a spectrum of robot therapy styles that range from challenging to nurturing. The second and the third experiments adjust the personality matching dynamically to adapt the robot’s therapy styles based on user personality and performance. The reported results provide first evidence for user preference for personality matching in the assistive domain and demonstrate how the socially assistive robot’s autonomous behavior adaptation to the user’s personality can result in improved human task performance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Intelligent Service Robotics Springer Journals

User—robot personality matching and assistive robot behavior adaptation for post-stroke rehabilitation therapy

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Robotics and Automation
ISSN
1861-2776
eISSN
1861-2784
DOI
10.1007/s11370-008-0017-4
Publisher site
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Abstract

This paper describes a hands-off socially assistive therapist robot designed to monitor, assist, encourage, and socially interact with post-stroke users engaged in rehabilitation exercises. We investigate the role of the robot’s personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversion–introversion of the robot and the user. We also demonstrate a behavior adaptation system capable of adjusting its social interaction parameters (e.g., interaction distances/proxemics, speed, and vocal content) toward customized post-stroke rehabilitation therapy based on the user’s personality traits and task performance. Three validation experiment sets are described. The first maps the user’s extroversion–introversion personality dimension to a spectrum of robot therapy styles that range from challenging to nurturing. The second and the third experiments adjust the personality matching dynamically to adapt the robot’s therapy styles based on user personality and performance. The reported results provide first evidence for user preference for personality matching in the assistive domain and demonstrate how the socially assistive robot’s autonomous behavior adaptation to the user’s personality can result in improved human task performance.

Journal

Intelligent Service RoboticsSpringer Journals

Published: Feb 13, 2008

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