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March 2015
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Therabot™ is an assistive-robotic therapy system designed to provide support during counseling sessions and home therapy practice to patients diagnosed with conditions associated with trauma. It has the form factor of a floppy-eared dog with coloring similar to that of a beagle, and comfortably fits in a person's lap.
March 2015
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Therabot is an assistive-robotic therapy system designed to provide support during counseling sessions and home therapy practice to patients diagnosed with conditions associated with trauma. Studies were conducted to determine desired features of potential end-users of the system, such as clinicians, with feedback from past survivors of trauma to guide the participatory design process. The results from a survey of 1,045 respondents revealed a preferred form factor of a floppy-eared dog with coloring similar to that of a beagle. The most requested features were that the robot be of a size that would be comfortable to fit in a person's lap and a covering that was soft, durable, and had multiple textures.
... Although the research community has indeed focused on defining children's design preferences and implications for robotic features including physical and behavioral aspects [33] [34][32] [22], many investigations are conducted as laboratory studies using commercially available robots [11]. While co-design of robots with children has not received much attention yet, several researchers have focused on co-design of robots with elderly [16][27] [8]. Other research has merely focused on students' and teachers' acceptance of robots in the classroom (e.g., [24]). ...
March 2015
... Additional padding was sometimes added under the covering and on top of the encased padding to fill in low spots in the covering to shape the robot. The initial prototype, demonstrated at the 2015 HRI conference [18], was fabricated by hand with the primary internal structure composed of two flat wooden platforms held together by a thick rubber strip. Components attached to the internal structure included actuators for each leg, a three degree-of-freedom neck, two degree-offreedom tail, piezoelectric and capacitive touch sensors, an inertial measurement unit, and a microphone. ...
March 2015
