[HTML][HTML] A socially assistive robot for long-term cardiac rehabilitation in the real world

N Céspedes, B Irfan, E Senft, CA Cifuentes… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
What are the benefits of using a socially assistive robot for long-term cardiac rehabilitation?
To answer this question we designed and conducted a real-world long-term study, in …

[HTML][HTML] Personalised socially assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation: Critical reflections on long-term interactions in the real world

B Irfan, N Céspedes, J Casas, E Senft… - User Modeling and User …, 2023 - Springer
Lack of motivation and low adherence rates are critical concerns of long-term rehabilitation
programmes, such as cardiac rehabilitation. Socially assistive robots are known to be …

[HTML][HTML] Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive personalized social robot to monitor and coach post-stroke rehabilitation exercises

M Hun Lee, DP Siewiorek, A Smailagic… - User Modeling and User …, 2023 - Springer
Socially assistive robots are increasingly being explored to improve the engagement of
older adults and people with disability in health and well-being-related exercises. However …

Multi-modal open world user identification

B Irfan, MG Ortiz, N Lyubova, T Belpaeme - ACM Transactions on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
User identification is an essential step in creating a personalised long-term interaction with
robots. This requires learning the users continuously and incrementally, possibly starting …

Cognitively assistive robots at home: Hri design patterns for translational science

A Kubota, D Cruz-Sandoval, S Kim… - 2022 17th ACM/IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Much research in healthcare robotics explores extending rehabilitative interventions to the
home. However, for adults, little guidance exists on how to translate human-delivered, clinic …

Lifelong learning and personalization in long-term human-robot interaction (leap-hri)

B Irfan, A Ramachandran, S Spaulding… - Companion of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While most of the research in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) focuses on short-term
interactions, long-term interactions require bolder developments and a substantial amount of …

[PDF][PDF] Users' perspectives on value awareness in social robots

GA Abbo, T Belpaeme - HRI2023, the 18th ACM/IEEE International …, 2023 - researchgate.net
The ability of an artificial interactive system to understand human values and align its actions
and decisions with them is important and this is particularly salient in the home environment …

[HTML][HTML] HR1 robot: An assistant for healthcare applications

V Vasco, AGP Antunes, V Tikhanoff… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
According to the World Health Organization the percentage of healthcare dependent
population, such as elderly and people with disabilities, among others, will increase over the …

Evaluating people's perception of trust and privacy based on robot's appearance

A Rossi, KL Koay, S Rossi - 2023 32nd IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies the impact of a robot's appearance on how people judge robots'
trustworthiness in a public space scenario. An online experimental study was conducted to …

Iterative user-centric development of mobile robotic systems with intuitive multimodal human-robot interaction in a clinic environment

HP Horn, M Nadig, J Hackbarth… - 2022 31st IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying robots with the ability to autonomously navigate in the environment of a clinic
necessitates carefully designing their verbal and non-verbal behaviour in order to avoid …