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Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting

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Social Robotics (ICSR 2016)

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Being able to sort one’s own medications is a critical self-management task for people with Parkinson’s disease. We analyzed the medication sorting task and gathered design considerations. Then we developed an autonomous robot to assist in the task. We used guidelines provided by occupational therapists to determine the level of assistance provided by the robot. Finally, an evaluation of the effectiveness of the robot with student evaluators determined that people trusted the robot to reliably assist and that people had a positive emotional experience completing the task.

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Acknowledgments

This project was in part supported by NSF grant #IIS-1316809. A special thanks to Grace Lee and Annie Saechao for their significant help in running the evaluation and analyzing the data.

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  1. Human-Robot Interaction Lab, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 02155, USA

    Jason R. Wilson & Matthias Scheutz

  2. Department of Occupational Therapy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 02155, USA

    Linda Tickle-Degnen

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Indiana, USA

    Arvin Agah

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    John-John Cabibihan

  3. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Ayanna M. Howard

  4. Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University Carlos III de Madrid, madrid, Spain

    Miguel A. Salichs

  5. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Hongsheng He

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Wilson, J.R., Tickle-Degnen, L., Scheutz, M. (2016). Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_21

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