Tangibot: A tangible-mediated robot to support cognitive games for ageing people—A usability study

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• 作者：Fernando Garcia-Sanjuan ; ^{fegarcia@dsic.upv.es} ; Javier Jaen ^{fjaen@dsic.upv.es} ; Vicente Nacher ^{vnacher@dsic.upv.es}
• 关键词：Gerontechnology ; Cognitive games ; Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) ; Robots ; Usability
• 刊名：Pervasive and Mobile Computing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：Complete
• 页码：91-105
• 全文大小：2028 K
• 卷排序：34

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The ever increasing elderly population requires a revision of technology to make it usable and meaningful for them. Most applications take into account their reduced physical and cognitive abilities in order to provide assistive services, but this paper focuses on building technology to improve these capacities through cognitive games. We present Tangibot, a tangible-mediated robot aimed at enabling more intuitive and appealing interactions. A usability study conducted on subjects at three different levels of cognitive impairment (none, mild, and severe) reveals that it is usable and engaging for users with no or mild cognitive impairment, and even though it is less usable for persons with severe impairment, it triggers positive emotional reactions among them, which makes it promising for their use in therapeutic activities.