I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults' Conversations with Misty the Robot

Jordan Miller; Troy McDaniel

doi:10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889523

I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults' Conversations with Misty the Robot

Jordan Miller, Troy McDaniel

Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics

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Abstract

We conducted a 2×2 Wizard of Oz between-subject user study with sixteen healthy older adults. We investigated how to make social robots converse more naturally and reciprocally through unstructured conversation. We varied the level of interaction by changing the level of verbal and nonverbal communication the robot provided. Participants interacted with the robot for eight sessions engaging in an unstructured conversation. These conversations lasted thirty minutes to an hour. This paper will evaluate four questions from the post-interaction survey individuals completed after each session with the robot. The questions include: (i) I had fun talking to the robot; (ii) I felt I had a meaningful conversation; (iii) I was engaged the whole interaction; and (iv) I would consider the robot my friend. All participants reported they were engaged, had a meaningful conversation, and had fun during all eight sessions. Seven individuals felt the robot was their friend.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	914-918
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538685549
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889523
State	Published - 2022
Event	17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022 - Sapporo, Japan Duration: Mar 7 2022 → Mar 10 2022

Publication series

Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Volume	2022-March
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

Conference

Conference	17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Sapporo
Period	03/7/22 → 03/10/22

Funding

The authors would like to thank the Zimin Institute at Arizona State University and the National Science Foundation (Grant No. 1828010) for their funding support. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the Zimin Institute or NSF.

Keywords

User Studies
healthy older adults
human robot interaction
nonverbal
social robots
user centered design
verbal

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Miller, J., & McDaniel, T. (2022). I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults' Conversations with Misty the Robot. In HRI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 914-918). (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction; Vol. 2022-March). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889523

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I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults' Conversations with Misty the Robot. / Miller, Jordan; McDaniel, Troy.
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