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Proposer

Minja Axelsson

Title

Zoomorphic Robots for At-Home Wellbeing Support

Goal

Design, develop and evaluate a zoomorphic robot for at-home wellbeing support

Description

Social robots have recently been designed and deployed to support wellbeing through interactions such as coaching and emotional support. For such robots to successfully support wellbeing, they need to be carefully designed to meet user needs in their specific context. This project aims to explore how a zoomorphic (i.e., a robot with an animal-like in form factor) robot could support user wellbeing in a home setting. The project will involve designing and developing wellbeing-support behaviours for the zoomorphic Miro-robot, testing them at the Robotarium’s home laboratory, and evaluating the resulting robot with users. The outcome of this project will be a zoomorphic robot implementation which supports wellbeing in the home.

Resources

Background

[1] Axelsson, M., Bodala, I. P., & Gunes, H. (2021, August). Participatory design of a robotic mental well-being coach. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 1081-1088). IEEE. [2] Schnitzer, B., Vural, U. C., Schnitzer, B., Sardar, M. U., Fuerst, O., & Korn, O. (2024). Prototyping a zoomorphic interactive robot companion with emotion recognition and affective voice interaction for elderly people. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(EICS), 1-32.

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Difficulty Level

Variable

Ethical Approval

Full

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Minja Axelsson

Keywords

robotics, hri, hci, wellbeing, user study

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
Master of Science in Human Robot Interaction
Master of Science in Robotics