Title
Towards a Social and Mobile Humanoid Exercise Coach
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Language
eng
Format of Original
2 p.
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Source Publication
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Source ISSN
9781450326582
Original Item ID
doi: 10.1145/2559636.2559849
Abstract
In the near future, humanoid robots may be available to act as personal health coaches that can socially interact and exercise with people to increase their physical activity and improve their nutritional habits. Although there has been work to demonstrate the long-term effects of using a robot to motivate and record exercise and nutrition data, we are developing a social and mobile humanoid health coach that will explain and perform the physical exercises along with the human in an effort to increase their physical activity. In this paper, we describe a pilot study to compare the effects on young adults of coaching delivered by a social and mobile humanoid robot health coach versus a human health coach. While data analysis bore out no significant statistical effect of coach type on daily activity level, the results demonstrated encouraging trends and suggest further research with a larger sample size.
Recommended Citation
Ramgoolam, Darryl; Russell, Elise; and Williams, Andrew B., "Towards a Social and Mobile Humanoid Exercise Coach" (2014). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 69.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/electric_fac/69
Comments
Published as part of the proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2014: 274-275. DOI.