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3 3  People with dementia often forget to eat and drink, leading to dehydration, malnutrition and decreased wellbeing in general. Our prototype engages in discourses to remind PwD to have lunch and drink water, using the Nao robot platform. The discourse aims to reming the PwD without causing any anxiety or embarrassment which a traditional "alarm" system could cause, and keep them company throughout these activities.
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5 -RQ1: "Does the robot cause PwD to eat more regularly?"*
6 -RQ2: "Does the robot remind the PwD of their hunger?"
7 -RQ3: "Does the music make the eating more enjoyable for the PwD?"
8 -RQ4: "Does the PwD experience less negative emotions, such as agitation, sadness, embarrassment, after the interaction with the 'intelligent' robot?"
5 +The four research questions studied in this evaluation are:
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10 -'*' This research question is difficult due to the practical limitations in designing the experimental setup and as such is left to lesser importance.
7 +1*. Does the robot cause PwD to eat more regularly?
8 +2. "Does the robot remind the PwD of their hunger?"
9 +3. "Does the music make the eating more enjoyable for the PwD?"
10 +4. "Does the PwD experience less negative emotions, such as agitation, sadness, embarrassment, after the interaction with the 'intelligent' robot?"
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12 +* This research question is difficult due to the practical limitations in designing the experimental setup and as such is left to lesser importance.
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12 12  = Method =
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14 14  The prototype is evaluated with an in-person experiment with multiple participants. In the experiment, the participants will be asked to pretend to be PwD and act accordingly with/without the prototype.
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97 97  {{/html}}
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99 99  (% style="text-align:center" %)
100 -Figure: Results on the eating of the test personas during the experiment
102 +Figure 1: Results on the eating of the test personas during the experiment
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102 -|=Version|=Did not eat|=Ate|=Would not have eaten without the robot|\\
103 -|Simple|16|3|1
104 -|Advanced|13|6|4
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106 106  Simple robot:
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108 108  * 16% ate
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113 113  * 32% ate
114 114  * 67% of those would not have eaten without the robot
115 115  
114 +== Music ==
115 +
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117 +<img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/MusicEnjoyable.png?rev=1.1" alt="Effects of music on the test personnel" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=1250/>
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120 +(% style="text-align:center" %)
121 +Figure 2: Answers of the test personas regarding music
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116 116  == EVEA (Mood) ==
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122 122  (% style="text-align:center" %)
123 -Figure: Median measured moods for the simple version of the robot
131 +Figure 3: Median measured moods for the simple version of the robot
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126 126  <img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/MoodChangeSmart.png?rev=1.1" alt="Measured moods and changes for the advanced version of the robot" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
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129 129  (% style="text-align:center" %)
130 -Figure: Median measured moods for the advanced version of the robot
138 +Figure 4: Median measured moods for the advanced version of the robot
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132 132  (% style="text-align:center" %)
133 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the hypothesis that the mood changed during the interaction with the simple robot
141 +Table 1: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the hypothesis that the mood changed during the interaction with the simple robot
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135 135  |=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
136 136  |Statistic|37|5|4|14
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137 137  |P-value|0.54|0.01|0.01|0.45
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139 139  (% style="text-align:center" %)
140 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood changed during the interaction with the advanced robot
148 +Table 2: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood changed during the interaction with the advanced robot
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142 142  |=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
143 143  |Statistic|32|11|2|17
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144 144  |P-value|0.18|0.01|0.01|0.45
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146 146  (% style="text-align:center" %)
147 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood decreased during the interaction with the simple robot
155 +Table 3: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood decreased during the interaction with the simple robot
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149 149  |=Mood|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
150 150  |Statistic|81|53|29
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151 151  |P-value|0.01|0.00|0.23
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153 153  (% style="text-align:center" %)
154 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood decreased during the interaction with the advanced robot
162 +Table 4: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood decreased during the interaction with the advanced robot
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156 156  |=Mood|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
157 157  |Statistic|32|149|52
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158 158  |P-value|0.00|0.01|0.07
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160 160  (% style="text-align:center" %)
161 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood increased during the interaction with the simple robot
169 +Table 5: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood increased during the interaction with the simple robot
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163 163  |=Mood|=Happiness
164 164  |Statistic|37
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165 165  |P-value|0.27
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167 167  (% style="text-align:center" %)
168 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood increased during the interaction with the advanced robot
176 +Table 6: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the mood increased during the interaction with the advanced robot
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170 170  |=Mood|=Happiness
171 171  |Statistic|32
172 172  |P-value|0.09
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174 -== Music ==
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177 -<img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/MusicEnjoyable.png?rev=1.1" alt="Effects of music on the test personnel" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=1250/>
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180 180  (% style="text-align:center" %)
181 -Figure: Answers of the test personas regarding music
183 +Table 7: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the hypothesis that the mood changes with the simple and advanced robots during the interaction are different
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185 +|=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
186 +|Statistic|92|49|85|69
187 +|P-value|0.92|0.07|0.71|0.31
188 +
183 183  == Godspeed ==
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190 -Figure: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was friendly'
196 +Figure 5: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was friendly'
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193 193  <img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/pleasant-hist.png?rev=1.1" alt="Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was pleasant'." style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
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197 -Figure: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was pleasant'
203 +Figure 6: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was pleasant'
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200 200  <img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/godspeed-barchart.png?rev=1.1" alt="Godspeed questionnaire median comparison'." style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
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203 203  (% style="text-align:center" %)
204 -Figure: Median measured Godspeed questionnaire dimensions
210 +Figure 7: Median measured Godspeed questionnaire dimensions
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213 +(% style="text-align:center" %)
214 +Table 8: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the advanced robot scored higher in the perceived dimensions
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206 206  |=Dimension|=Likeability|=Intelligence
207 207  |Statistic|36|70
208 208  |P-value|0.01|0.17
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210 -(% style="text-align:center" %)
211 -Table: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the advanced robot scored higher in the perceived dimensions
220 += Discussion =
221 +Analysis the results surfaced some minor issues in the experiment, such as the lack of comparison with two robots of similar features, with and without music. Also the practical limitations in the setup, such as the lack of different food options and some participants being aware of the design goals of the prototype could have interfered with the natural flow of the intercourse. With these limitations, the research method was successful in extracting differences within the robots and brought up additional directions for future research.
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223 +The most interesting direction for future research would be the longer term studying of the effect of mealtime reminders on the health of the test subjects. The longer term health study would uncover the effect on eating frequency and the development of the relationship with the robot, for example would the test subjects that were first excited about the novel interaction with the robot, develop negative feelings about the supervision that the robot is conducting into their personal life.
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225 +Another topic to study is the differences with and without music. The effects of music could be studied with the music tailored to personal taste and all versions of the robot with and without the music playback included in the interaction. This would allow to pinpoint the effects of music, without the other features causing variance.
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213 213  = Conclusions =
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215 -From the results we can see that the more advanced robot
229 +From the results we can see that the more advanced robot shows advantages over the simple version in many categories. Hints of better performance in other categories can be seen, but no conclusions should be drawn from the ones that lack the statistical significance.
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231 +In improving the eating, it seems that both robots have limited success in causing the people to eat as seen in Figure 1, they could cause the patients to eat more regularly, if triggered by timers or other suitable systems. It also seems that the advanced robot is better in the reminding, by a slight margin. However, the long term effects of reminding should be researched more to conclude whether the usage of the demonstrated robot platform or similar would cause the patients to eat more regularly. It is also unclear how the test setup and the limited choice of food affected the eating.
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218 -= Discussion =
233 +Based on the answers of the participants regarding music seen in Figure 2, it seems that most of them were either indifferent or liked the music. Also, as the test personnel find the advanced robot more likeable with a 5% confidence limit (Table 7), and the advanced version was the only version with music, it seems likely that the music does make the interaction more pleasant for the personas. However, some of the likeability might be due to the other advanced features of the robot and thus more research is needed to conclude the effect of the music.
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235 +The EVEA and partial Godspeed result can be seen in Figures 3-7 and Tables 1-8. The results show that with reasonable confidence (5% confidence limit), both versions of the robot decreased sadness and anxiety in the test personas. Hints are shown (10% confidence limit) that the advanced robot also decreases feelings of anger and increases happiness, while the simple robot fails to show similar results. However, in Table 7 we can see that the statistical differences in the mood differences during the interactions with the different versions are not highly significant.
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237 +A Wilcoxon signed rank test for the partial Godspeed test shows in Table 8 that with high confidence (1% confidence limit), the intelligent robot is more likeable in comparison to the simple robot. With these results it is likely that the more advanced robot is slightly preferrable and the personas might experience less negative emotions after the interaction with the robots, but it is slightly unclear if the effect is more powerful with the advanced robot.
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222 222  = Appendix =
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224 224  == Experiment introduction for participants ==