Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts.

IF 3.8 2区 计算机科学 Q2 ROBOTICS
Waki Kamino, Long-Jing Hsu, Swapna Joshi, Natasha Randall, Abhijeet Agnihotri, Katherine M Tsui, Selma Šabanović
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A sense of meaning and purpose in life-known in Japan as one's ikigai-can lead to better health outcomes, an improved sense of well-being, and longer life as people age. The design of socially assistive robots, however, has so far focused largely on the more hedonic aims of supporting positive affect and happiness through interactions with robots. To explore how social robots might be able to support people's ikigai, we performed (1) in-depth interviews with 12 'ikigai experts' who formally support and/or study older adults (OAs)' ikigai and (2) 5 co-design workshop sessions with 10 such experts. Our interview findings show that expert practitioners define ikigai in a holistic way in their everyday experience and practice, incorporating physical, social, and mental activities that relate not only to the individual and their behaviors, but also to their relationships with other people and to their connection with the broader community (3 levels of ikigai). Our co-design workshops showed that ikigai experts were overall positive towards the use of social robots to support OAs' ikigai, particularly in the roles of an information-provider and social enabler that connects OAs to other people and activities in their communities. They also point out areas of potential risk, including the need to maintain OAs' independence, relationships with others, and privacy, which should be considered in design. This research is the first to explore the co-design of social robots that can support people's sense of ikigai-meaning and purpose-as they age.

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共同创造意义:与Ikigai专家共同设计老年人社交机器人。
在日本,生活中的意义感和目标感被称为“ikigai”,随着人们年龄的增长,可以带来更好的健康结果、更好的幸福感和更长的寿命。然而,到目前为止,社交辅助机器人的设计主要集中在通过与机器人的互动来支持积极情感和幸福的更快乐的目标上。为了探索社交机器人如何支持人们的ikigai,我们进行了(1)对12名正式支持和/或研究老年人ikigai的“ikigai专家”的深入采访,以及(2)与10名此类专家的5次联合设计研讨会。我们的访谈结果表明,专业从业者在日常体验和实践中以整体的方式定义ikigai,包括身体、社会和心理活动,这些活动不仅与个人及其行为有关,还与他们与他人的关系以及他们与更广泛社区的联系有关(ikigai的3个层次)。我们的联合设计研讨会表明,ikigai专家总体上对使用社交机器人来支持OAs的ikigai持积极态度,特别是在将OAs与其他人及其社区活动联系起来的信息提供者和社会推动者的角色上。他们还指出了潜在风险的领域,包括需要保持OAs的独立性、与他人的关系以及隐私,这些都应该在设计中加以考虑。这项研究首次探索了社交机器人的共同设计,这些机器人可以支持人们随着年龄的增长而产生的ikigai意义和目标感。
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期刊介绍: Social Robotics is the study of robots that are able to interact and communicate among themselves, with humans, and with the environment, within the social and cultural structure attached to its role. The journal covers a broad spectrum of topics related to the latest technologies, new research results and developments in the area of social robotics on all levels, from developments in core enabling technologies to system integration, aesthetic design, applications and social implications. It provides a platform for like-minded researchers to present their findings and latest developments in social robotics, covering relevant advances in engineering, computing, arts and social sciences. The journal publishes original, peer reviewed articles and contributions on innovative ideas and concepts, new discoveries and improvements, as well as novel applications, by leading researchers and developers regarding the latest fundamental advances in the core technologies that form the backbone of social robotics, distinguished developmental projects in the area, as well as seminal works in aesthetic design, ethics and philosophy, studies on social impact and influence, pertaining to social robotics.
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