RT Journal Article
T1 User feedback and remote supervision for assisted living with mobile robots: A field study in long-term autonomy
A1 Luperto, Matteo
A1 Romeo, Marta
A1 Monroy, Javier
A1 Renoux, Jennifer
A1 Vuono, Alessandro
A1 Moreno, Francisco-Angel
A1 Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier
A1 Basilico, Nicola
A1 Borghese, N. Alberto
K1 Socially Assistive Robots
K1 Long-term autonomy
K1 Field study
K1 Project
K1 Support
AB In an ageing society, the at-home use of Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) could provide remote monitoring of their users' well-being, together with physical and psychological support. However, private home environments are particularly challenging for SARs, due to their unstructured and dynamic nature which often contributes to robots' failures. For this reason, even though several prototypes of SARs for elderly care have been developed, their commercialisation and wide-spread at-home use are yet to be effective. In this paper, we analyse how including the end users' feedback impacts the SARs reliability and acceptance. To do so, we introduce a Monitoring and Logging System (MLS) for remote supervision, which increases the explainability of SAR-based systems deployed in older adults' apartments, while also allowing the exchange of feedback between caregivers, technicians, and older adults. We then present an extensive field study showing how long-term deployment of autonomous SARs can be accomplished by relying on such a feedback loop to address any potential issue. To this end, we provide the results obtained in a 130-week long study where autonomous SARs were deployed in the apartments of 10 older adults, with the aim of possibly serving and assisting future practitioners, with the knowledge collected from this extensive experimental campaign, to fill the gap that currently exists for the widespread adoption of SARs. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PB Elsevier
SN 0921-8890
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/22504
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/22504
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 7, 2025