Social robots could help address the growing issue of physical inactivity by inspiring users to engage in interactive exercise. Nevertheless, the practical implementation of social exercise robots poses substantial challenges, particularly in terms of personalizing their activities to individuals. We propose that motion-capture-based teleoperation could serve as a viable solution to address these needs by enabling experts to record custom motions that could later be played back without their real-time involvement. To gather feedback about this idea, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight exercise-therapy professionals. Our findings indicate that experts' attitudes toward social exercise robots become more positive when considering the prospect of teleoperation to record and customize robot behaviors.
| Author(s): | Mohan, Mayumi and Mat Husin, Haliza and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J. |
| Book Title: | Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) |
| Pages: | 769--773 |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Month: | March |
| Project(s): | |
| Bibtex Type: | Conference Paper (inproceedings) |
| Address: | Boulder, USA |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3610978.3640620 |
| State: | Published |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
| Note: | Late-Breaking Report (LBR) (5 pages) presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) |
BibTex
@inproceedings{Mohan24-HRILBR-Expert,
title = {Expert Perception of Teleoperated Social Exercise Robots},
booktitle = {Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
abstract = {Social robots could help address the growing issue of physical inactivity by inspiring users to engage in interactive exercise. Nevertheless, the practical implementation of social exercise robots poses substantial challenges, particularly in terms of personalizing their activities to individuals. We propose that motion-capture-based teleoperation could serve as a viable solution to address these needs by enabling experts to record custom motions that could later be played back without their real-time involvement. To gather feedback about this idea, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight exercise-therapy professionals. Our findings indicate that experts' attitudes toward social exercise robots become more positive when considering the prospect of teleoperation to record and customize robot behaviors.},
pages = {769--773},
address = {Boulder, USA},
month = mar,
year = {2024},
note = {Late-Breaking Report (LBR) (5 pages) presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
slug = {mohan24-hrilbr-expert},
author = {Mohan, Mayumi and Mat Husin, Haliza and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
month_numeric = {3}
}