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Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time

Laban, G. , Morrison, V., Kappas, A. and Cross, E. S. (2022) Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot Over Time. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI22), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 29 April - 5 May 2022, p. 329. ISBN 9781450391566 (doi: 10.1145/3491101.3519666)

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Abstract

Informal caregivers often struggle in managing to cope with both the stress and the practical demands of the caregiving situation. It has been suggested that digital solutions might be useful to monitor caregivers’ health and well-being, by providing early intervention and support. Given the importance of self-disclosure for psychological health, here we aimed to investigate the potential of employing a social robot for eliciting self-disclosure among informal caregivers over time. We conducted a longitudinal experiment across a five-week period, measuring participants’ disclosure duration (in seconds) and length (in number of words). Our preliminary results show a positive trend where informal caregivers speak for a longer time and share more information in their disclosures to a social robot across the five-week period. These results provide useful evidence supporting the potential deployment of social robots as intervention tools to help provide support for individuals suffering from stress and experiencing challenging life situations.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Additional Information:	The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie to ENTWINE, the European Training Network on Informal Care (Grant agreement no. 814072), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant agreement no. 677270 to EC), and the Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2018-152 to EC).
Keywords:	EMI, HRI, Informal Caregivers, Social Robot, Intervention, Stress, Human-Robot Interaction, Caregiving, Self-Disclosure, Ecological Momentary Intervention, Emotion, Discourse, Affective Computing, Affective Science, Communication
Status:	Published
Refereed:	Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:	Laban, Mr Guy and Cross, Professor Emily
Authors:	Laban, G., Morrison, V., Kappas, A., and Cross, E. S.
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine T Technology > T Technology (General)
College/School:	College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience
Research Group:	Social Brain in Action
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN:	9781450391566
Published Online:	28 April 2022
Copyright Holders:	Copyright © 2022 The Authors
Publisher Policy:	Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher

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Funder and Project Information

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
306871	814072	The European Training Network on Informal Care	Emily Cross	European Commission (EC)	814072	Centre for Neuroscience
303930		SOCIAL ROBOTS	Emily Cross	European Research Council (ERC)	677270	Centre for Neuroscience
304215		Philip Leverhulme Prize - EC	Emily Cross	Leverhulme Trust (LEVERHUL)	PLP-2018-152	Centre for Neuroscience

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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code:	285182
Depositing User:	Mr Guy Laban
Datestamp:	15 Nov 2022 09:33
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2022 10:48
Date of acceptance:	15 February 2022
Date of first online publication:	28 April 2022
Date Deposited:	16 November 2022
Data Availability Statement:	No