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Designing an experimental and a reference robot to test and evaluate the impact of cultural competence in socially assistive robotics

  • Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto
    ,
  • Chris Papadopoulos
    ,
  • Tetiana Hill
    ,
  • Nina Castro
    ,
  • Barbara Bruno
    ,
  • Irena Papadopoulos
  • University of Genoa
    ,
  • Advinia Health Care
    ,
  • Middlesex University
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

The article focusses on the work performed in preparation for an experimental trial aimed at evaluating the impact of a culturally competent robot for care home assistance. Indeed, it has been estabilished that the user's cultural identity plays an important role during the interaction with a robotic system and cultural competence may be one of the key elements for increasing capabilities of socially assistive robots. Specifically, the paper describes part of the work carried out for the definition and implementation of two different robotic systems for the care of older adults: a culturally competent robot, that shows its awareness of the user's cultural identity, and a reference robot, non culturally competent, but with the same functionalities of the former. The design of both robots is here described in detail, together with the key elements that make a socially assistive robot culturally competent, which should be absent in the non-culturally competent counterpart. Examples of the experimental phase of the CARESSES project, with a fictional user are reported, giving a hint of the validness of the proposed approach.

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Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 13/01/2020

Publication status

Published - 13/01/2020

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624149
  • Scopus: 85078836121

Host publication title

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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