Problem statement and research questions

Goal: How effective is music and dialogue in preventing people with dementia from wandering?

RQ:

1. Are the participant able to interact with robot? (Qualitative)
   2. What is their reaction on the music? (Qualitative + Quantitative?)
   3. How do people feel after the interaction? (Qualitative)
   4. How does the participant's mood affect the interaction? (Qualitative)
   5. What percentage of people are are kept in? (Quantitative)

Method

A between subject study with students who play the role of having dementia. Data will be collected by observing the participant's body language and the way that they're responding to Pepper.

Participants

20 students who play the role of having dementia. They will be divided into two groups. One group will be interacting with the unintelligent robot while the other will interact with the intelligent robot.
It is assumed that all participants are living at the same care center.
Before they start, they can choose how stubborn they want to be and how progressed their stage of dementia is.

Experimental design

The first four RQ's are exploratory research. 

1. Observe how natural the conversation is. (conversation makes sense)
   2. Observe whether the mood is improved and decision has been changed.
   3. Participant's fill out questionnaire.
   4. Observe participant's mood and see how the conversation goes. Observe level of aggression (tone, volume, pace)
   The last question collects quantitative data, where the number of people who were stopped will be counted.

Tasks

The participant should be on their way out of the building. The participant and robot have an interaction where robot is trying to convince the participant to stay inside. 

Measures

We will be measuring this physically and emotionally.
Physically: whether the participant was stopped from leaving the building or not.
Emotionally: evaluate their responses to the robot and observe their mood before and after the interaction.

Procedure

1. Starts with a short briefing on what we expect from the participant.
   2. Let them fill out the informed consent form.
   3. Ask the participant about their background.
   4. Let the user interact with the robot (Either version A or B)
   5. While user is interacting, we will be observing the conversation and their moods.
   6. Let user fill out the questionnaire about their experience after the interaction.
   > focus on how to get the participants mood

Material

Pepper, laptop, door, and music. 

Results

Discussion

Conclusions