Monday, March 11, 2013 11:30:36 PM
I wanted to see what was going on with the project currently and I came up with this paper evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction - ML Walters - Nov 1, 2011 - Source: Advanced Robotics, Volume 25, Number 18, 2011.
This study uses taped interaction in a "larger study" of about 200 people because it simply isn't practical to do live user studies.
Description of BIRON systems from the paper - the expense of the systems used means that this unit can not be commercialized on a large scale. The CareBot With Kinects can be commercialized. If low light proves to be a problem (so far GeckoSystems has not reported any such limitation) supplemental IR range finders which were used before Kinect could be added back to the system and it would still be commercially viable.
Note that the "home tour" mentioned above is a mapping procedure of the home. The CareBot does not need formal mapping to be functional.
The paper also discusses "personalities" for the Robot - something that has been addressed in CareBot development.
So this study is about people watching a video of live robot interaction, but the video they are watching is of an actor and a robot, not a senior.
https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/7697/1/906059.pdf
GeckoSystems Claim is legitimate - they did the first in home trials of a care giving Robot, using actual elderly care receivers - not actors.
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