Improving psychological wellbeing with robots

J. Gallego Pérez; Manja Lohse; Vanessa Evers

doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333636

Improving psychological wellbeing with robots

J. Gallego Pérez, Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers

Human Media Interaction

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Robot users that receive psychological or psy-chotherapeutic support from robots (e.g. robots that motivate users to perform certain tasks) are usually aware of participating in a psychological intervention. The present paper aims to ascertain whether robot users should indeed remain aware, or rather unaware, of participating in such type of interventions. We present an experiment with two conditions. In one condition (direct) the robot made participants aware of being subjected to a psychological intervention, the three good things exercise from positive psychology, whereas in the other condition (indirect) participants were not made aware of the intervention. Our results show that the robot succeeded in improving participants' positive affect in the direct condition but their affect worsened in the indirect condition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	RO-MAN 2015 - 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Symposium Digest
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	688-693
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467367042
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333636
Publication status	Published - 20 Nov 2015
Event	24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015 - Kobe, Japan Duration: 31 Aug 2015 → 4 Sept 2015

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Conference	24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Kobe
Period	31/08/15 → 4/09/15

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Gallego Pérez, J, Lohse, M & Evers, V 2015, Improving psychological wellbeing with robots. in RO-MAN 2015 - 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Symposium Digest., 7333636, IEEE, pp. 688-693, 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, 31/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333636

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