Member: Yohei Noguchi.
Keywords: Social mediator robot, self-disclosure, socially assistive robot, and robot for elderly care.
Encouraging self-disclosure is crucial to prevent social isolation of elderly people. In this research, we discuss a use case of social robots as social mediators in which they are used to intermediate remote communication between elderly people and their family members or friends. We are exploring proper design guidelines of the social mediator robot based on studies in which more than 1,200 elderly people participated.
It was found that social mediator robot encourage self-disclosure of elderly users, particularly in topics that they usually feel difficulties to self-disclose. Design guidelines are obtained depending on personal traits of elderly users.
- Yohei Noguchi, Hiroko Kamide, Fumihide Tanaka: Effects on the Self-disclosure of Elderly People by Using a Robot Which Intermediates Remote Communication, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), pp.612-617, Nanjing, China, August 2018 [pdf, 1.25MB]
- Yohei Noguchi, Fumihide Tanaka: A Pilot Study Investigating Self-Disclosure by Elderly Participants in Agent-Mediated Communication, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2017), pp.29-34, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2017 [pdf, 870KB]
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