TSES-R: An Extended Scale for Measuring Parental Expectations toward Robots for Children in Healthcare
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HRI '23: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2023) 258–262 10.1145/3568294.3580084Abstract
There is a growing interest in implementing robotics applications for children in healthcare to provide companionship, comfort, education, and therapy. Parental expectations regarding robotics for young children play a critical role in influencing its development and acceptance. However, parental expectations are widely overlooked in HRI. Therefore, a better understanding of what parents of young children expect the robot to do in health-related interactions with robots is needed. To achieve this, we adopted the Technology-Specific Expectation Scale (TSES) [2] and added three more dimensions (i.e., assistive role, social-emotional, and playful distraction) to gauge users' expectations of robots in healthcare, resulting in TSES-R. This paper reports the development and reliability analysis of TSES-R. Furthermore, this paper presents the preliminary results collected from using the TSES-R with a sample of 31 families, which showcases how these outcomes could be helpful for future related studies. TSES-R: An Extended Scale for Measuring Parental Expectations toward Robots for Children in Healthcare