TY - GEN
T1 - Comparing the effects of social robots and virtual agents on exercising motivation
AU - Schneider, Sebastian
AU - Kummert, Franz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Preventing diseases of affluence is one of the major challenges for our future society. Researchers introduced robots as a tool to support people on dieting or rehabilitation tasks. However, deploying robots as exercising companions is cost-intensive. Therefore, in our current work, we are investigating how the embodiment of an exercising partner influences the exercising motivation to persist on an abdominal plank exercise. We analyzed and compared data from previous experiments on exercising with robots and virtual agents. The results show that the participants had longer exercising times when paired with a robot companion compared to virtual agents, but not compared to a human partner. However, participants perceived the robots partner as more likable than a human partner. This results have implications for SAR practitioners and are important for the usage of SAR to promote physical activity.
AB - Preventing diseases of affluence is one of the major challenges for our future society. Researchers introduced robots as a tool to support people on dieting or rehabilitation tasks. However, deploying robots as exercising companions is cost-intensive. Therefore, in our current work, we are investigating how the embodiment of an exercising partner influences the exercising motivation to persist on an abdominal plank exercise. We analyzed and compared data from previous experiments on exercising with robots and virtual agents. The results show that the participants had longer exercising times when paired with a robot companion compared to virtual agents, but not compared to a human partner. However, participants perceived the robots partner as more likable than a human partner. This results have implications for SAR practitioners and are important for the usage of SAR to promote physical activity.
KW - Embodiment
KW - Exercising
KW - Socially assistive robots
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058319893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-05204-1_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-05204-1_44
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058319893
SN - 9783030052034
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 451
EP - 461
BT - Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, ICSR 2018, Proceedings
A2 - Broadbent, Elizabeth
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
A2 - Salichs, Miguel A.
A2 - Castro-González, Álvaro
A2 - He, Hongsheng
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Wagner, Alan R.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2018
Y2 - 28 November 2018 through 30 November 2018
ER -