NCT04993599

Evaluation of Social Robot Usability for Pediatric Patients and Carers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: Samsung Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is conducted for a mixed methods study. Subjects are 20 child patients and 20 their carers. First, Participants use and interact with a social robot. The robot is controlled by researcher with the wizard of oz. method. The interaction is video-recorded for the later analysis of the child's engagement through amount of his vocalization and sentences. After using social robot, a survey and an in-depth interview will be done. This study investigates the usability, satisfaction, emotion, and other dimensions of social robots of pediatric patients and carers and evaluate the degree of interaction with them with the recording data, survey and in-depth interview. This study is a basis for using social robots to pediatric patients in the hospital environments.

Detailed description

This study is conducted for a mixed methods study. Subjects are 20 child patients and 20 their carers. First, Participants use and interact with a social robot. The robot is controlled by researcher with the wizard of oz. method. And another researcher observes the participants-robot interaction. The interaction is video-recorded for the later analysis of the child's engagement through amount of his vocalization and sentences. After using social robot, a survey and an in-depth interview will be done. This study investigates the usability, satisfaction, emotion, and other dimensions of social robots of pediatric patients and carers and evaluate the degree of interaction with them with the recording data, survey and in-depth interview. This study is a basis for using social robots to pediatric patients in the hospital environments.

Conditions

• Pediatrics

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Social robot interaction	The participants interact with the social robot which is controlled by the researcher behind the scene (wizard of oz. method).

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-02
• Primary completion: 2022-01-31
• Completion: 2022-01-31
• First posted: 2021-08-06
• Last updated: 2022-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea