PRE2020 3 Group8

Group description

Abstract

A pure software end-user application that supports people in their need to socialize while motivating self-improvement. Anthropomorphism is intentionally used to increase user commitment and experience. Machine learning techniques are used to process user's data and provide feedback, and to facilitate the anthropomorphized interface.

Members

(in alphabetical order):

• Edwin Steenkamer
• Emi Kuijpers (1227154)
• Fanni Egresits
• Morris Boers (1253107)
• Lulof Pirée (1363638)

GitHub Page:

GitHub

Logbook

See the page logbook_group_8

Problem statement and objectives

Goals

The software application should:

• Significantly reduce symptoms of loneliness as induced by infrequent social contact in users
• Register personal goals set by the users
• Collect data on the user's behavior and progress towards goals
• Provide the user with feedback and constructive nudges

Beyond the scope

The following features are probably valuable additions to the product, but they are beyond the scope of what can be achieved in one quartile:

• Voice recognition
• Animated anthropomorphized interface (e.g. simulated face)

Who are the users

The target of the application is to support civilians in daily life. The audience of the prototype is narrowed down to adolescents and adults who use computers on a daily basis.

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Approach, milestones and deliverables

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Overview

WIP below

Possibly relevant papers:

• Identifying Evidence-Informed Physical Activity Apps: Content Analysis
• This one is a bachelor thesis, but it does include useful references: [1]
• The efficacy of using mobile applications in changing adolescent girls’ physical activity behaviour during weekends

possibly relevant papers for theoretical background:

• Literature review about different robotics (ours is assistive i think)

Royakkers, L., & van Est, R. (2015). A literature review on new robotics: automation from love to war. International journal of social robotics, 7(5), 549-570. (Summarized)

• ANTHROPOMORPHISM:

Melson GF, Kahn PH, Beck A, Friedman B (2009) Robotic pets in human lives: implications for the human-animal bond and for human relationships with personified technologies. J Soc Issues 65(3):545–569

• ANTHROPOMORPHISM:

Duffy BR (2003) Anthropomorphism and the social robot. Robot Auton Syst 42(3–4):170–190

• DESIGNING and taking into account human emotions:

chapter 5 of Affective Interaction: Understanding, Evaluating, and Designing for Human Emotion (See summary)

• SOCIAL FACILITATION

Riether, N., Hegel, F., Wrede, B., & Horstmann, G. (2012, March). Social facilitation with social robots?. In 2012 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 41-47). IEEE. (see summary)

• SOCIAL FACILITATION

Woods, S., Dautenhahn, K., & Kaouri, C. (2005, June). Is someone watching me?-consideration of social facilitation effects in human-robot interaction experiments. In 2005 international symposium on computational intelligence in robotics and automation (pp. 53-60). IEEE. (see summary)

• LONELINESS

Eyssel, F., & Reich, N. (2013, March). Loneliness makes the heart grow fonder (of robots)—On the effects of loneliness on psychological anthropomorphism. In 2013 8th acm/ieee international conference on human-robot interaction (hri) (pp. 121-122). IEEE.

• INCREASING MOTIVATION USING ROBOTICS

van Minkelen, P., Gruson, C., van Hees, P., Willems, M., de Wit, J., Aarts, R., ... & Vogt, P. (2020, March). Using self-determination theory in social robots to increase motivation in L2 word learning. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 369-377).

User guide

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Software documentation

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