How elderly users of a socially interactive robot experience adaptiveness, adaptability and user control

Abstract

Older adults prefer an assistive technology that can be adaptive to their needs. However, as an assistive social robot that is autonomous has the possibility of being pro-actively adaptive this could cause feelings of anxiety. Analyzing the results of a study with video's that feature an assistive social robot in alternate conditions we found that although older adults prefer a robot to be adaptive rather than adaptable, they still want to maintain a sense of user control.