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  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.
--The four research questions studied in this evaluation are:
++RQ1: "Does the robot cause PwD to eat more regularly?"
++RQ2: "Does the PwD experience less negative emotions, such as agitation, sadness, embarrassment, after the interaction with the 'intelligent' robot?"
++RQ3: "Does the robot remind the PwD of their hunger?"
--1*. Does the robot cause PwD to eat more regularly?
--2. "Does the robot remind the PwD of their hunger?"
--3. "Does the music make the eating more enjoyable for the PwD?"
--4. "Does the PwD experience less negative emotions, such as agitation, sadness, embarrassment, after the interaction with the 'intelligent' robot?"
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--* This research question is difficult due to the practical limitations in designing the experimental setup and as such is left to lesser importance.
--
  = Method =
  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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  For the experiments, we'll be using the NAO robot platform, as well as a laptop for the participants to complete the questionnaires on. The questionnaire will be a combination of questions regarding the emotional state of the participants, their interaction with the robot, and the music included in the interaction. Food will be made available to see and measure how much people will eat.
--Questionnaires:
--Consent Form and Disclaimers
--8 questions from the [[EVEA>>https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/39-2013-04-19-EVEA%20-%20Datasheet.pdf]] questionnaire
--4 questions from the [[Godspeed>>https://www.bartneck.de/2008/03/11/the-godspeed-questionnaire-series/]] questionnaire
--3 food-related questions of our own (5-point Likert scale)
--2 music-related questions of our own (5-point Likert scale)
--== Practicalities ==
--
--Beforehand:
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--* Do a practice round by ourselves
--** Film this
--* Contact other groups and decide on a time slot
--** Might be better to reserve in 10 min slots, so that people don't have to wait so much
--** If possible, this could be done in parallel with another groups testing
--* Reserve lab
--* Buy snacks
--
--During:
--
--1. Give starting questionnare to fill while people are waiting for the previous participant
--2. Guide the participant to the testing spot
--3. Inform the participant where the snacks are
--4. Run the first version
--5. Give the mid-questionnare
--6. Run the other test
--7. Conduct the questionnare for the participant
--8. Give the participant the end-questionnare
--
--Other practicalities during:
--
--* We will use the "Wizard of Oz" method for recognizing agreement and disagreement, to make sure that the whole process does not depend on voice recegnition being good enough
--** Someone will press eg. "y" and "n" on the keyboard according to the participants answers
--* We will change the order in which the smart and basic versions are for each participant
--** this way if someone doesn't show up, we don't get skewed amounts
--
--After:
--
--* Analyze results
--
  = Results =
--The results were gathered from 19 personnel, all of whom interacted first with one version of the robot and then the other. 10 of the participants interacted first with the simple version, nine having their first interaction with the advanced version.
--== Eating ==
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--<img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/EatingComp.png?rev=1.1" alt="Results on the eating of the test personas" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 1: Results on the eating of the test personas during the experiment
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--Simple robot:
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--* 16% ate
--* 33% of those would not have eaten without the robot
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--Advanced robot:
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--* 32% ate
--* 67% of those would not have eaten without the robot
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--== Music ==
--
--{{html}}
--<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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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 2: Answers of the test personas regarding music
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--== EVEA (Mood) ==
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--{{html}}
--<img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/MoodChangeDumb.png?rev=1.1" alt="Measured moods and changes for the simple robot" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
--{{/html}}
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 3: Median measured moods for the simple version of the robot
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--{{html}}
--<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/>
--{{/html}}
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 4: Median measured moods for the advanced version of the robot
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
--|Statistic|37|5|4|14
--|P-value|0.54|0.01|0.01|0.45
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
--|Statistic|32|11|2|17
--|P-value|0.18|0.01|0.01|0.45
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
--|Statistic|81|53|29
--|P-value|0.01|0.00|0.23
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
--|Statistic|32|149|52
--|P-value|0.00|0.01|0.07
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Happiness
--|Statistic|37
--|P-value|0.27
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Happiness
--|Statistic|32
--|P-value|0.09
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--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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--|=Mood|=Happiness|=Anxiety|=Sadness|=Anger
--|Statistic|92|49|85|69
--|P-value|0.92|0.07|0.71|0.31
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--== Godspeed ==
--
--{{html}}
--<img src="https://xwiki.ewi.tudelft.nl/xwiki/wiki/sce2022group01/download/Test/WebHome/friendly-hist.png?rev=1.1" alt="Effects of music on the test personnel" style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" width=750/>
--{{/html}}
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 5: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was friendly'
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--{{html}}
--<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/>
--{{/html}}
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--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 6: Answers to the statement 'I thought the robot was pleasant'
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--{{html}}
--<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/>
--{{/html}}
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Figure 7: Median measured Godspeed questionnaire dimensions
--
--
--(% style="text-align:center" %)
--Table 8: Wilcoxon signed rank test results for the null hypothesis that the advanced robot scored higher in the perceived dimensions
--
--|=Dimension|=Likeability|=Intelligence
--|Statistic|36|70
--|P-value|0.01|0.17
--
  = Discussion =
--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.
--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.
--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.
  = Conclusions =
--
--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.
--
--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.
--
--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.
--
--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.
--
--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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--= Appendix =
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--== Experiment introduction for participants ==
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--Hi, we are <NAME> and <NAME> from the TU Delft Socio-Cognitive Engeering course Group 1, thank you for participating in our prototype evaluation experiment. The experiment is being conducted as a part of the TU Delft course on Socio-Cognitive Engineering and aims to evaluate the prototype designed as a part of the course. The evaluated prototype is based on the Nao robot-platform and is intended to improve the wellbeing of people suffering of dementia.
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--Consuming food and/or water can be a consequence of the interaction between you and the robot. Therefore, we would like to ask you if you have any allergies. If you have a form of Diabetes, please let us know before we start the first part of the experiment. You are strongly encouraged to share any other health conditions that can possibly be relevant to take into account when doing an experiment with robots and food with us.
--
--The link between the stimuli of the Nao-robot and the triggering of epileptic seizures is yet unknown. If you have ever experienced epileptic seizures, please let us know. Then, we could see if any special precautions are needed.
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--The experiment will last for approximately 15-20 minutes, and consists of two interaction sections with the Nao robot, as well as questionnaires before, between and after the sections. We kindly ask you to act naturally during the experiment and fill the questionnaires truthfully and intuitively. Remember that we are evaluating the prototypes performance, not yours. You can stop the experiment at any time.
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--We will be collecting data of the questionnaires and recording some experiments, do you agree with your experiment being recorded? All data excluding the recordings will be anonymised before analysis and storage. The recordings will not be shared with third parties. After the experiment you have the right to ask for information about the collected data and revoke the right to use it. We kindly ask you not to share any information about the experiment with other participants.
-- Do you have any questions?
--
--== After research interview ==
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--Setup:
--The test subject has finished both parts of the experiment. Before leaving the test conductor(s) sit down with them and ask the following questions in a discussion about the experiment. Discussion can flow freely, but the following topics should be discussed.
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--Topics:
--- Emotions before / during / after the interaction with the robot
--    - Agitation due to the robot suggesting eating
--    - Effect of music on the general feeling of the situation
--    - Feeling of company during eating
--- Effectiveness of eating/drinking suggestions
--
--Questions:
--- Did you eat or drink anything during the experiment?
--- Were you feeling hungry/thirsty beforehand and did the discourse change this?
--- On a scale of 1-10, how likely would you have eaten/drank without the robot suggesting it?
--- What did the interaction with the robot feel like?
--    - With the more intelligent version?
--    - With the less intelligent version?
--- What did you feel like when the robot suggested you should eat/drink?

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