Title
My robot is happy today: how older people with mild cognitive impairments understand assistive robots' affective output
Abstract
This paper presents the research conducted towards developing the affective output channel of an assistive robot, called RAMCIP, targeted to elderly users with mild cognitive impairments (MCI) or early stages of Alzheimer Disease (AD). An animated screen allowing the robot to express emotions through facial expressions has been developed, along with a framework for the corresponding modifications of the robot's speech prosody. Both of the above affective robot output elements are dynamically adapted during RAMCIP use based on an affective output policy. The paper reports the results of four experiments, which have been conducted with MCI and early AD patients in order to validate the developed facial expression and speech intonation affective output modalities. The above research efforts have led to the development of the corresponding software prototypes, which have been integrated in the RAMCIP robot.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3316782.3322777
Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Keywords
Field
DocType
affective output, alzheimer disease, assistive robots, facial expressions, mild cognitive impairments, prosody
Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Cognition,Affect (psychology)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6232-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9