@inproceedings{bae6f969721f44e997c83fa80a404c1a,
title = "Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time",
abstract = "Informal caregivers often struggle in managing to cope with both the stress and the practical demands of the caregiving situation. It has been suggested that digital solutions might be useful to monitor caregivers' health and well-being, by providing early intervention and support. Given the importance of self-disclosure for psychological health, here we aimed to investigate the potential of employing a social robot for eliciting self-disclosure among informal caregivers over time. We conducted a longitudinal experiment across a five-week period, measuring participants' disclosure duration (in seconds) and length (in number of words). Our preliminary results show a positive trend where informal caregivers speak for a longer time and share more information in their disclosures to a social robot across the five-week period. These results provide useful evidence supporting the potential deployment of social robots as intervention tools to help provide support for individuals suffering from stress and experiencing challenging life situations.",
keywords = "Caregiving, EMI, Ecological Momentary Intervention, HRI, Human-Robot Interaction, Informal Caregivers, Intervention, Self-Disclosure, Social Robot, Stress",
author = "Guy Laban and Val Morrison and Arvid Kappas and Cross, \{Emily S.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 ACM.; 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022 ; Conference date: 30-04-2022 Through 05-05-2022",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1145/3491101.3519666",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}