NDLI: Assessing affective response of older users to a telepresence robot using a combination of psychophysiological measures

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Tiberio, L. Cesta, A. Cortellessa, G. Padua, L. Pellegrino, A.R.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy (Padua, L.) \|\| CNR, Italian National Research Council, ISTC, Italy (Tiberio, L.; Cesta, A.; Cortellessa, G.) \|\| Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation, Rome, Italy (Pellegrino, A.R.)
Abstract	Telepresence robots can become a beneficial tool in home care assistance and rehabilitation services by helping elderly people to remain in their homes longer. They can represent an additional means to assist older adults and facilitate social interaction by creating a support network through which nursing staff and family members can collaborate. This article describes a feasibility study relatively to the use of such robots in the interaction with elderly people affected by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The paper aims at assessing the psychophysiological response of such users to the presence of the robotic platform in order to use it as an indication of the level of tolerance toward the platform. To this purpose, we have involved 9 healthy and 8 MCI older adults in the participation of an experimental study where they have been asked to perform repeated interactions with and without the telepresence robot. We based our analysis on a combination of psychological tests to assess anxiety, positive/negative effects of the interaction with the robot, and we performed physiological measurements (heart rate and heart rate variability) to obtain an objective measure of the actual psychological state. Results seem to suggest that the robot presence is satisfactorily tolerated by MCI and that it does not cause adverse effects in term of cardiovascular response, thus encouraging further investigation on telepresence robots for rehabilitation and care experimental studies.
Starting Page	833
Ending Page	838
File Size	1101743
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467346047
ISSN	19449445
e-ISBN	9781467346061
e-ISBN	9781467346054
DOI	10.1109/ROMAN.2012.6343855
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-09-09
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robots Humans Hafnium Heart rate variability Atmospheric measurements Particle measurements
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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