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Older Adults’ Perceptions of Supporting Factors of Trust in a Robot Care Provider
Older Adults’ Perceptions of Supporting Factors of Trust in a Robot Care Provider
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Stuck, Rachel E.
Rogers, Wendy A.
Rogers, Wendy A.
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Abstract
The older adult population is increasing worldwide, leading to an increased need for care providers. An insufficient number of
professional caregivers will lead to a demand for robot care providers to mitigate this need. Trust is an essential element for older
adults and robot care providers to work effectively. Trust is context dependent.Therefore, we need to understand what older adults
would need to trust robot care providers, in this specific home-care context. This mixed methods study explored what older adults,
who currently receive assistance from caregivers, perceive as supporting trust in robot care providers within four common homecare
tasks: bathing, transferring, medication assistance, and household tasks. Older adults reported three main dimensions that
support trust: professional skills, personal traits, and communication. Each of these had subthemes including those identified in
prior human-robot trust literature such as ability, reliability, and safety. In addition, new dimensions perceived to impact trust
emerged such as the robot’s benevolence, the material of the robot, and the companionability of the robot. The results from this
study demonstrate that the older adult-robot care provider context has unique dimensions related to trust that should be considered
when designing robots for home-care tasks.
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2018
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