TY - GEN
T1 - Train with Me
T2 - 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019
AU - Vasco, Valentina
AU - Willemse, Cesco
AU - Chevalier, Pauline
AU - De Tommaso, Davide
AU - Gower, Valerio
AU - Gramatica, Furio
AU - Tikhanoff, Vadim
AU - Pattacini, Ugo
AU - Metta, Giorgio
AU - Wykowska, Agnieszka
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Long-term motor deficits affect approximately two thirds of stroke survivors, reducing their quality of life. An effective rehabilitation therapy requires intense and repetitive training, which is resource demanding. Virtual Agents (VAs) and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) offer high intensity, repetitive and reproducible therapy and are thus both promising as rehabilitation tools. In this paper, we compare a SAR and a VA during a rehabilitation task in terms of users’ engagement and movement performance, while leveraging neuroscientific methods to investigate potential differences at the neural level. Results show that our participants’ performance on the exercise was higher with a SAR than with a VA, which was especially clear under conditions of decreased perceptual information. Our participants reported higher levels of engagement with the SAR. Taken together, we provide evidence that SARs are a favorable alternative to VAs as rehabilitation tools.
AB - Long-term motor deficits affect approximately two thirds of stroke survivors, reducing their quality of life. An effective rehabilitation therapy requires intense and repetitive training, which is resource demanding. Virtual Agents (VAs) and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) offer high intensity, repetitive and reproducible therapy and are thus both promising as rehabilitation tools. In this paper, we compare a SAR and a VA during a rehabilitation task in terms of users’ engagement and movement performance, while leveraging neuroscientific methods to investigate potential differences at the neural level. Results show that our participants’ performance on the exercise was higher with a SAR than with a VA, which was especially clear under conditions of decreased perceptual information. Our participants reported higher levels of engagement with the SAR. Taken together, we provide evidence that SARs are a favorable alternative to VAs as rehabilitation tools.
KW - Embodiment
KW - Socially assistive robot
KW - Virtual agent
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_42
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_42
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076521787
SN - 9783030358877
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 453
EP - 463
BT - Social Robotics - 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Salichs, Miguel A.
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
A2 - Barakova, Emilia Ivanova
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Wagner, Alan R.
A2 - Castro-González, Álvaro
A2 - He, Hongsheng
PB - Springer
Y2 - 26 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
ER -