Assessing Social Humanoid Interaction Across Levels of Trust, Persuasion, and Empathy, Expert Panel Survey Validation
Abstract
Social humanoids present a wide range of opportunities regarding interactions with humans with the purpose of using artificial intelligence systems to aid with day-to-day activities. Humanoids can be programmed to provide high levels of intelligence for task fulfillment such as assisting caregivers/patients, washing human limbs autonomously, assisting with lift-and-transfer patients, and even delivering blood samples. Additional tasks include carrying objects, opening doors, operating telehealth consultations, providing demonstrations, coaching, and serving companionship for any patients. Researchers are assessing the interactions between social humanoids and patients across levels of trust, persuasion, and empathy. This project aims to explore such interactions in the context of promoting awareness about healthy lifestyles amongst young college students. Moreover, the topics of exercising, nutrition, sleep habits, and mindfulness will be demonstrated in a set of experiments to three groups of participants. The first group will serve as a control group, having no interventions. The second group will receive an oral presentation about areas making up healthy lifestyle behavior. The third group will receive an oral presentation and have social interactions with a humanoid in each of the areas making a healthy lifestyle. This research project will focus on validating a survey instrument utilized to assess a healthy lifestyle among college students. A team of subject-matter experts will validate the survey, including experts from the field of human coaching, nutrition, communication, technology, and exercise coaching. Following the Delphi method, several rounds of feedback will be solicited to validate the survey. Results will be shared during the poster presentation.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Michelle Ramim
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-5-2023 12:00 PM
End Date
4-6-2023 4:00 PM
Assessing Social Humanoid Interaction Across Levels of Trust, Persuasion, and Empathy, Expert Panel Survey Validation
Alvin Sherman Library
Social humanoids present a wide range of opportunities regarding interactions with humans with the purpose of using artificial intelligence systems to aid with day-to-day activities. Humanoids can be programmed to provide high levels of intelligence for task fulfillment such as assisting caregivers/patients, washing human limbs autonomously, assisting with lift-and-transfer patients, and even delivering blood samples. Additional tasks include carrying objects, opening doors, operating telehealth consultations, providing demonstrations, coaching, and serving companionship for any patients. Researchers are assessing the interactions between social humanoids and patients across levels of trust, persuasion, and empathy. This project aims to explore such interactions in the context of promoting awareness about healthy lifestyles amongst young college students. Moreover, the topics of exercising, nutrition, sleep habits, and mindfulness will be demonstrated in a set of experiments to three groups of participants. The first group will serve as a control group, having no interventions. The second group will receive an oral presentation about areas making up healthy lifestyle behavior. The third group will receive an oral presentation and have social interactions with a humanoid in each of the areas making a healthy lifestyle. This research project will focus on validating a survey instrument utilized to assess a healthy lifestyle among college students. A team of subject-matter experts will validate the survey, including experts from the field of human coaching, nutrition, communication, technology, and exercise coaching. Following the Delphi method, several rounds of feedback will be solicited to validate the survey. Results will be shared during the poster presentation.
