A robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ wellbeing

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• dc.contributor.author Jeong, Sooyeon
• dc.contributor.author Alghowinem, Sharifa
• dc.contributor.author Aymerich Franch, Laura
• dc.contributor.author Arias, Kika
• dc.contributor.author Lapedriza, Agata
• dc.contributor.author Picard, Rosalind
• dc.contributor.author Park, Hae Won
• dc.contributor.author Breazeal, Cynthia
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-02T06:13:04Z
• dc.date.available 2023-05-02T06:13:04Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description Comunicació presentada a The 29th IEEE International Conference' on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2020), celebrat del 31 d'agost al 4 de setembre de 2020 de manera virtual.
• dc.description.abstract A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occupational outcomes. Various scalable technologies have been proposed in order to mitigate the negative impact of mental health disorders. However, the evaluation for these technologies, if done at all, often reports mixed results on improving users’ mental health. We need to better understand the factors that align a user’s attributes and needs with technology-based interventions for positive outcomes. In psychotherapy theory, therapeutic alliance and rapport between a therapist and a client is regarded as the basis for therapeutic success. In prior works, social robots have shown the potential to build rapport and a working alliance with users in various settings. In this work, we explore the use of a social robot coach to deliver positive psychology interventions to college students living in on-campus dormitories. We recruited 35 college students to participate in our study and deployed a social robot coach in their room. The robot delivered daily positive psychology sessions among other useful skills like delivering the weather forecast, scheduling reminders, etc. We found a statistically significant improvement in participants’ psychological wellbeing, mood, and readiness to change behavior for improved wellbeing after they completed the study. Furthermore, students’ personality traits were found to have a significant association with intervention efficacy. Analysis of the post-study interview revealed students’ appreciation of the robot’s companionship and their concerns for privacy.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) R&D program of the Ministry of Science and Institute for Information and Communication Technology Promotion of Republic of Korea under grant 2017-0-00162, “Development of Human-Care Robot Technology for Aging Society,” and partly by the MIT-Sensetime grant. LA-F is supported by the Ramon y Cajal ´ Fellowship Program (RYC-2016-19770, AEI/ESF).
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• dc.identifier.citation Jeong S, Alghowinem S, Aymerich-Franch L, Arias K, Lapedriza A, Picard R, Park HW, Breazeal C. A robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ wellbeing. In: Rossi S, Ferland F, Morocco D, editors. The 29th IEEE International Conference' on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN); 2020 Aug 31-Sep 4; online. [Picastaway]: IEEE; 2020. p. 187-94. DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223588
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN47096.2020.9223588
• dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-7281-6076-4
• dc.identifier.issn 1944-9445
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56627
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• dc.relation.ispartof Rossi S, Ferland F, Morocco D, editors. The 29th IEEE International Conference' on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN); 2020 Aug 31-Sep 4; online. [Picastaway]: IEEE; 2020. p. 187-94.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/RYC-2016-19770
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• dc.subject.keyword Privacy
• dc.subject.keyword Data privacy
• dc.subject.keyword Mood
• dc.subject.keyword Conferences
• dc.subject.keyword Weather forecasting
• dc.subject.keyword Mental health
• dc.subject.keyword Interviews
• dc.title A robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ wellbeing
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