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Ítem The Town Crier: A Use-Case Design and Implementation for a Socially Assistive Robot in Retirement Homes(MDPI, 2024-04-09) Iglesias, Ana; Viciana, Raquel; Pérez-Lorenzo, José Manuel; Ting, Karine Lan Hing; Tudela, Alberto; Marfil, Rebeca; Qbilat, Malak; Hurtado, Antonio; Jerez, Antonio; Bandera, Juan PedroThe use of new assistive technologies in general, and Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) in particular, is becoming increasingly common for supporting people’s health and well-being. However, it still faces many issues regarding long-term adherence, acceptability and utility. Most of these issues are due to design processes that insufficiently take into account the needs, preferences and values of intended users. Other issues are related to the currently very limited amount of long-term evaluations, performed in real-world settings, for SARs. This study presents the results of two regional projects that consider as a starting hypothesis that the assessment in controlled environments and/or with short exposures may not be enough in the design of an SAR deployed in a retirement home and the necessity of designing for and with users. Thus, the proposed methodology has focused on use-cases definitions that follow a human centred and participatory design approach. The main goals have been facilitating system acceptance and attachment by involving stakeholders in the robots design and evaluation, overcoming usage barriers and considering user’s needs integration. The implementation of the first use-case deployed and the two phase pilot test performed in a retirement home are presented. In particular, a detailed description of the interface redesign process based on improving a basic prototype with users’ feedback and recommendations is presented, together with the main results of a formal evaluation that has highlighted the impact of changes and improvements addressed in the first redesign loop of the system.Ítem Towards long term acceptance of Socially Assistive Robots in retirement houses: use case definition(IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-04-15) Iglesias, Ana; Viciana-Abad, Raquel; Pérez-Lorenzo, José Manuel; Ting, Karine Lan Hing; Tudela, Alberto; Marfil, Rebeca; Dueñas, Álvaro; Bandera, Juan PedroThe deployment of new assistive technologies, in general, and Socially Assistive Robots (SAR) and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) ecosystems, in particular, faces many issues regarding long term adherence, acceptability and utility. Most of these issues are due to design processes that do not take into account the needs, preferences and values of intended users. This paper presents the first steps of two regional projects involving long term evaluation of these technologies in the context of a retirement house. These projects follow a human-centred and participatory design approach to overcome usage barriers. To date, there are no research contributions in which a socially assistive robot, designed for and with users, has been tested in field trials for long term, in a real scenario. This paper describes the proposed methodology, the process already started to analyse practices and user’s needs, and the implementation of the first use case to be deployed for the Socially Assistive Robot in the retirement house.