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Views from within a narrative : Evaluating long-term human-robot interaction in a naturalistic environment using open-ended scenarios
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. Date of acceptance: 16/06/2014This article describes the prototyping of human–robot interactions in the University of Hertfordshire (UH) Robot House. Twelve participants took part in a long-term study in which they interacted with robots in the UH Robot House once a week for a period of 10 weeks. A prototyping method using the narrative framing technique allowed participants to engage with the robots in episodic interactions that were framed using narrative to convey the impression of a continuous long-term interaction. The goal was to examine how participants responded to the scenarios and the robots as well as specific robot behaviours, such as agent migration and expressive behaviours. Evaluation of the robots and the scenarios were elicited using several measures, including the standardised System Usability Scale, an ad hoc Scenario Acceptance Scale, as well as single-item Likert scales, open-ended questionnaire items and a debriefing interview. Results suggest that participants felt that the use of this prototyping technique allowed them insight into the use of the robot, and that they accepted the use of the robot within the scenarioPeer reviewe
Integrating Constrained Experiments in Long-term Human-Robot Interaction using Task– and Scenario–based Prototyping
© 2015 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis© Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay, and Wan Ching Ho. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested.In order to investigate how the use of robots may impact everyday tasks, 12 participants interacted with a University of Hertfordshire Sunflower robot over a period of 8 weeks in the university’s Robot House.. Participants performed two constrained tasks, one physical and one cognitive , 4 times over this period. Participant responses were recorded using a variety of measures including the System Usability Scale and the NASA Task Load Index . The use of the robot had an impact on the experienced workload of the participants differently for the two tasks, and this effect changed over time. In the physical task, there was evidence of adaptation to the robot’s behaviour. For the cognitive task, the use of the robot was experienced as more frustrating in the later weeks.Peer reviewedFinal Published versio
Affective Movement in Robotic Art: Alternatives to the ‘Interiority Paradigm’ in Social Robotics
This paper critically evaluates how emotional and intentional movement is conceptualised and deployed in social robotics and provides an alternative by analysing contemporary robotic artworks that deal with affective human-robot interaction(HRI). Within HRI, movement as a way of communicating emotions and intent has become a topic of increased interest, which has made social robotics turn to theatre and dance due to the expertise of these fields in expressive movement. This paper will argue that social robotics’ way of using performative methods with regards to emotional movement is, nonetheless, limited and carries certain challenges. These challenges are grounded on the claim that social robotics participates in what the author calls an ‘interiority paradigm’. That is, movement is understood to be the expression of inner, pre-determined states. The 'interiority paradigm' poses several challenges to the development of emotional movement, with regards to unaddressed human and robotic imaginaries, an emphasis in legibility and familiarity, and a restrictive interior/exterior binary that limits the role of movement in an affective connection. As an example of how robots could be imagined beyond this interiority paradigm, the author proposes to turn to contemporary robotic art. Robotic art’s view on affective movement as a matter of evocation and of performative co-creation might inspire the development of robots that move beyond the requirement of being mere copies of a human interiority. While the intersection between robotics and the performing arts is a fruitful field of research, the author argues in this paper that the way in which movement is currently being developed through performative methods has certain shortcomings, and that the perspective of robotic art on affective movement might open up a more interesting area of exploration for social robotics, as well as expose those aspects of theatre and dance that have been unaddressed in robotics
Artificial Intelligence is a Character? Exploring design scenarios to build interface behaviours
The paper aims to illustrate the qualitative results of the first phase of the scenario research about voice interfaces, examining whether it is possible to design them as if they were a theatrical or cinematographic character. The research field intersects interaction design with character design, intended as the narrative construction of a character, and theatrical performances. The experimentation takes advantage of theatre workshops that aims to show, and understand, which are the main characteristics of a vocal interface and how to design them according to a performance approach. The paper ends illustrating how design can address actual opportunities and criticalities about emerging technologies, following a relations-based approach
iRobot : conceptualising SERVBOT for humanoid social robots
Services are intangible in nature and, as a result, it is often difficult to measure the quality of the service. The service is usually delivered by a human to a human customer and the service literature shows SERVQUAL can be used to measure the quality of the service. However, the use of social robots during the pandemic is speeding up the process of employing social roots in frontline service settings. An extensive review of the literature shows there is a lack of an empirical model to assess the perceived service quality provided by a social robot. Furthermore, the social robot literature highlights key differences between human service and social robots. For example, scholars have highlighted the importance of entertainment and engagement in the adoption of social robots in the service industry. However, it is unclear whether the SERVQUAL dimensions are appropriate to measure social robots’ service quality. This master’s project will conceptualise the SERVBOT model to assess a social robot’s service quality. It identifies reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and entertainment as the five dimensions of SERVBOT. Further, the research will investigate how these five factors influence emotional and social engagement and intention to use the social robot in a concierge service setting. To conduct the research, a 2 x 1 (CONTROL vs SERVBOT) x (Concierge) between-subject experiment was undertaken and a total of 232 responses were collected for both stages. The results indicate that entertainment has a positive influence on emotional engagement when service is delivered by a human concierge. Further, assurance had a positive influence on social engagement when a human concierge provided the service. When a social robot concierge delivered the service, empathy and entertainment both influenced emotional engagement, and assurance and entertainment impacted social engagement favourably. For both CONTROL (human concierge) and SERVBOT (social robot concierge), emotional and social engagement had a significant influence on intentions to use. This study is the first to propose the SERVBOT model to measure social robots’ service quality. The model provides a theoretical underpinning on the key service quality dimensions of a social robot and gives scholars and managers a method to track the service quality of a social robot. The study also extends the literature by exploring the key factors that influence the use of social robots (i.e., emotional and social engagement)
Economic Fundamentals Of the Knowledge Society
This article provides an introduction to fundamental issues in the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework that distinguishes knowledge from information, the authors characterize the specific nature of such economies. They go on to deal with some of the major issues concerning the new skills and abilities required for integration into the knowledge-based economy; the new geography that is taking shape (where physical distance ceases to be such an influential constraint); the conditions governing access to both information and knowledge, not least for developing countries; the uneven development of scientific, technological (including organizational) knowledge across different sectors of activity; problems concerning intellectual property rights and the privatization of knowledge; and the issues of trust, memory and the fragmentation of knowledge. This monograph is concerned with the nature of the process of macroeconomic growth that has characterized the U. S. experience, and manifested itself in the changing pace and sources of the continuing rise real output per capita over the course of the past two hundred years. A key observation that emerges from the long-term quantitative economic record is that the proximate sources of increases in real GDP per head in the century between 1889 and 1999 were quite different from those which obtained during the first hundred years of American national experience. Baldly put, the economy's ascent to a position of twentieth century global industrial leadership entailed a transition from growth based upon the interdependent development and extensive exploitation of its natural resources and the substitution of tangible capital for labor, towards a the maintenance of an productivity leadership through rising rates of intangible investment in the formation and exploitation of technological and organizational knowledge.
The Second International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Message from the Conference Co-Chairs
B. Han and S. Falan …………………………....….……………. 5
II. Message from the Transactions Editor
H. Lee …...………..………….......………….……….………….... 7
III. Referred Papers
A. Emerging Health Information Technology and Applications
The Role of Mobile Technology in Enhancing the Use of Personal Health Records
Mohamed Abouzahra and Joseph Tan………………….……………. 9
Mobile Health Information Technology and Patient Care: Methods, Themes, and Research Gaps
Bahae Samhan, Majid Dadgar, and K. D. Joshi…………..…. 18
A Balanced Perspective to Perioperative Process Management
Jim Ryan, Barbara Doster, Sandra Daily, and Carmen Lewis…..….…………… 30
The Impact of Big Data on the Healthcare Information Systems
Kuo Lane Chen and Huei Lee………….…………… 43
B. Health Care Communication, Literacy, and Patient Care Quality
Digital Illness Narratives: A New Form of Health Communication
Jofen Han and Jo Wiley…..….……..…. 47
Relationships, Caring, and Near Misses: Michael’s Story
Sharie Falan and Bernard Han……………….…..…. 53
What is Your Informatics Skills Level? -- The Reliability of an Informatics Competency Measurement Tool
Xiaomeng Sun and Sharie Falan.….….….….….….…. 61
C. Health Information Standardization and Interoperability
Standardization Needs for Effective Interoperability
Marilyn Skrocki…………………….…….………….… 76
Data Interoperability and Information Security in Healthcare
Reid Berryman, Nathan Yost, Nicholas Dunn, and Christopher Edwards.…. 84
Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Shared Services vs. the HIE Shared Services in Other States
Devon O’Toole, Sean O’Toole, and Logan Steely…..……….…… 94
D. Health information Security and Regulation
A Threat Table Based Approach to Telemedicine Security
John C. Pendergrass, Karen Heart, C. Ranganathan, and V.N. Venkatakrishnan
…. 104
Managing Government Regulatory Requirements for Security and Privacy Using Existing Standard Models
Gregory Schymik and Dan Shoemaker…….…….….….… 112
Challenges of Mobile Healthcare Application Security
Alan Rea………………………….……………. 118
E. Healthcare Management and Administration
Analytical Methods for Planning and Scheduling Daily Work in Inpatient Care Settings:
Opportunities for Research and Practice
Laila Cure….….……………..….….….….… 121
Predictive Modeling in Post-reform Marketplace
Wu-Chyuan Gau, Andrew France, Maria E. Moutinho, Carl D. Smith, and Morgan C. Wang…………...…. 131
A Study on Generic Prescription Substitution Policy as a Cost Containment Approach for Michigan’s Medicaid System
Khandaker Nayeemul Islam…….…...……...………………….… 140
F. Health Information Technology Quality Assessment and Medical Service Delivery
Theoretical, Methodological and Practical Challenges in Designing Formative Evaluations of Personal eHealth Tools
Michael S. Dohan and Joseph Tan……………….……. 150
The Principles of Good Health Care in the U.S. in the 2010s
Andrew Targowski…………………….……. 161
Health Information Technology in American Medicine: A Historical Perspective
Kenneth A. Fisher………………….……. 171
G. Health Information Technology and Medical Practice
Monitoring and Assisting Maternity-Infant Care in Rural Areas (MAMICare)
Juan C. Lavariega, Gustavo Córdova, Lorena G Gómez, Alfonso Avila….… 175
An Empirical Study of Home Healthcare Robots Adoption Using the UTUAT Model
Ahmad Alaiad, Lina Zhou, and Gunes Koru.…………………….….………. 185
HDQM2: Healthcare Data Quality Maturity Model
Javier Mauricio Pinto-Valverde, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Guardado, Lorena Gomez-Martinez, Martha Corrales-Estrada, and Juan Carlos Lavariega-Jarquín.… 199
IV. A List of Reviewers …………………………..…….………………………208
V. WMU – IT Forum 2014 Call for Papers …..…….…………………20
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