Identifying Social Context Factors Relevant for a Robotic Elderly Assistant

摘要

Social robots are envisioned to support elderly people in their daily lives. To interact in a socially competent way with its users a Robotic Elderly Assistant (REA), just as any other social robot, should consider the full social context of the situation in which it is interacting. In this paper, we investigate how to identify important factors that are relevant to distinguish social situations. Our study aims at determining social context factors that are important for a REA to consider when deciding when and how to deliver a message. Therefore, we describe the creation of video-based stimuli that were used in an interview study with senior users (n = 8). Our results suggest that the content of the message and certain factors of the social situation are important for the decisions of elderly users. They can serve as a basis for future studies that will further investigate social context modelling.