Haptic Intelligence

Expert Perception of Teleoperated Social Exercise Robots

2024

Conference Paper

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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): Mayumi Mohan and Mat Husin, Haliza and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Book Title: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Pages: 769--773
Year: 2024
Month: March
Department(s): Haptic Intelligence
Research Project(s): Teleoperating Max's Head and Arms
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference
DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640620
Address: Boulder, USA
Note: Late-Breaking Report (LBR) (5 pages) presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
State: Published

BibTex 

@inproceedings{Mohan24-HRILBR-Expert,
  title = {Expert Perception of Teleoperated Social Exercise Robots},
  author = {Mohan, Mayumi and Mat Husin, Haliza and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  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)},
  doi = {10.1145/3610978.3640620},
  month_numeric = {3}
}