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A Deployable Architecture for Robot-Mediated Tasks (DART): Evaluation in Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises
Mina Kian, Lydia Ignatova, Jiong Wang +12
Socially assistive robots (SARs) can support structured health and well-being interventions, but hardware and cost constraints limit interaction complexity and longitudinal real-wo…
Can I Pet Your Robot? Incorporating Capacitive Touch Sensing into a Soft Socially Assistive Robot Platform
Amy O'Connell, Bailey Cislowski, Heather Culbertson +1
This work presents a method of incorporating low-cost capacitive tactile sensors on a soft socially assistive robot platform. By embedding conductive thread into the robot's croche…
An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling
Massimiliano Nigro, Amy O'Connell, Thomas Groechel +2
Understanding and respecting personal space preferences is essential for socially assistive robots designed for older adult users. This work introduces and evaluates a novel person…
How Can Large Language Models Enable Better Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey
Zhonghao Shi, Ellen Landrum, Amy O' Connell +5
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great success in providing personalized cognitive-affective support for user populations with special needs such as older adults, childr…
Design and Evaluation of a Socially Assistive Robot Schoolwork Companion for College Students with ADHD
Amy O'Connell, Ashveen Banga, Jennifer Ayissi +5
College students with ADHD respond positively to simple socially assistive robots (SARs) that monitor attention and provide non-verbal feedback, but studies have been done only in…