In this paper, we investigate the roles that social robots can take in physical exercise with human partners. In related work, robots or virtual intelligent agents take the role of a coach or instructor whereas in other approaches they are used as motivational aids. These are two "paradigms", so to speak, within the small but growing area of robots for social exercise. We designed an online questionnaire to test whether the preferred role in which people want to see robots would be the companion or the coach. The questionnaire asks people to imagine working out with a robot with the help of three utilized questionnaires: (1) CART-Q which is used for judging coach-athlete relationships, (2) the mind perception questionnaire and (3) the System Usability Scale (SUS). We present the methodology, some preliminary results as well as our intended future work on personal robots for coaching.
翻译:在本文中,我们调查社会机器人与人类伙伴在身体锻炼中可以扮演的角色。在相关工作中,机器人或虚拟智能代理人扮演教练或教练的角色,而在其他方法中,他们则被用作激励辅助工具。这就是两个“范式 ”, 也就是说,在微小但不断增长的社会锻炼的机器人领域。我们设计了一个在线问卷,以测试人们希望看到机器人的首选角色是同伴还是教练。问卷要求人们想象与机器人一起工作,并使用三个使用过的问卷:(1) CART-Q,用于判断教练-运动员关系,(2) 心智感知问卷和(3) 系统可用度表。我们介绍了方法、一些初步结果以及我们今后关于个人机器人指导的预期工作。