@inproceedings{17cfc105bdef4693957c8e4fc9837a37,
title = "Robot-Assisted Training with Swedish and Israeli Older Adults",
abstract = "This paper explores robot-assisted training in a cross-cultural context with older adults. We performed user studies with 28 older adults with two different assistive training robots: an adaptive robot, and a non-adaptive robot, in two countries (Sweden and Israel). In the adaptive robot group, the robot suggested playing music and decreased the number of repetitions based on the participant{\textquoteright}s level of engagement. We analyzed the facial expressions of the participants in these two groups. Results revealed that older adults in the adaptive robot group showed more varying facial expressions. The adaptive robot created a distraction for the older adults since it talked more than the non-adaptive robot. This result suggests that a robot designed for older adults should utilize the right amount of communication capabilities. The Israeli participants expressed more positive attitudes towards robots and rated the perceived usefulness of the robot higher than the Swedish participants.",
keywords = "Cultural robotics, Human-robot interaction, Older adults, Physical training, Social robots",
author = "Neziha Akalin and Maya Krakovsky and Omri Avioz-Sarig and Amy Loutfi and Yael Edan",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 13th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2021 ; Conference date: 10-11-2021 Through 13-11-2021",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_42",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030905248",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "487--496",
editor = "Haizhou Li and Ge, {Shuzhi Sam} and Yan Wu and Agnieszka Wykowska and Hongsheng He and Xiaorui Liu and Dongyu Li and Jairo Perez-Osorio",
booktitle = "Social Robotics - 13th International Conference, ICSR 2021, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}