Acceptability in Dialogues With the Robot EBO

University of Extremadura

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nervous System Diseases

Treatments: Other: Interaction and exposure with the Robot EBO

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04896333

128/2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a descriptive observational study (first results cross-sectional study, second results longitudinal study). The participants of the study will be exposed to a dialogue with the robot EBO. The user and the therapist's acceptability of the robot, the robot-user interaction during the conversation and the conversation parameters will be assessed.

Full description

This is a descriptive observational study (first results cross-sectional study, second results longitudinal study). The participants of the study will be exposed to a dialogue with the robot EBO. The user and the therapist's acceptability of the robot will be measure. Also the robot-user interaction during the conversation and the conversation parameters will be assessed. The assessements will be done at week 0 and at week 3. During weeks 1 and 2 the robot will be present in the therapeutic activities of the center.

Enrollment: 6 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Users of socio-health centers in Extremadura (Spain).
• Patients with neurological pathology diagnosed by a specialist doctor.
• Over 65 years of age
• Minimental State Examination with a score greater than or equal to 21 (mild-moderate cognitive impairment).

Exclusion criteria

• Severe cognitive impairment
• Language impairment that prevents the use of verbal communication.

Trial design

6 participants in 1 patient group

Robot interaction

Description:

EBO is a robotic platform consisting of the following: A screen display capable of generating emotions (sadness, joy, neutral, anger, disgust and surprise), RGB camera, basic navigation system. EBO must be controlled by a teleoperator through a user-friendly and simple interface. Communication should be as immediate as possible, as well as predefined. In any case, the dialogue flow can be modified if necessary. The interface, at the same time, allows the possibility of sending emotions and small movements to the robot, to accompany the dialogue with certain elements of emotionality. The experiment replicates the Wizard of Oz technique. In this technique, the human tele-operator controls the robot without the person noticing it as he is in another room. For this purpose, a user interface will be displayed on the teleoperator's terminal and the commands will be reproduced by the EBO robot

Treatment:

Other: Interaction and exposure with the Robot EBO