Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care
Antonio Sgorbissa, Irena Papadopoulos, Barbara Bruno, Christina Koulouglioti, Carmine Recchiuto
Abstract
The functionalities and behaviours of socially assistive robots for the care of older people are usually defined by the robot's designers with limited room for runtime adaptation to meet the preferences, expectations and needs of the assisted person. However, adaptation plays a crucial role for the robot's acceptability and ultimately for its effectiveness. Culture, which deeply influences a person's preferences and habits, can be viewed as an invaluable “enabling technology” to achieve such level of adaptation. This paper discusses how guidelines describing culturally competent assistive behaviours can be encoded in a robot to effectively tune its actions, gestures and words. The proposed system is implemented on a Pepper robot and tested with an Indian persona, whose habits and preferences the robot discovers and adapts to at runtime.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{iros2018_encodingguidelin,
title = {Encoding Guidelines for a Culturally Competent Robot for Elderly Care},
author = {Antonio Sgorbissa and Irena Papadopoulos and Barbara Bruno and Christina Koulouglioti and Carmine Recchiuto},
booktitle = {IROS 2018},
year = {2018}
}