Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being

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• dc.contributor.author Jeong, Sooyeon
• dc.contributor.author Aymerich Franch, Laura
• dc.contributor.author Arias, Kika
• dc.contributor.author Alghowinem, Sharifa
• dc.contributor.author Lapedriza, Agata
• dc.contributor.author Picard, Rosalind
• dc.contributor.author Park, Hae Won
• dc.contributor.author Breazeal, Cynthia
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-07-25T11:33:08Z
• dc.date.available 2022-07-25T11:33:08Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract Despite the increase in awareness and support for mental health, college students’ mental health is reported to decline every year in many countries. Several interactive technologies for mental health have been proposed and are aiming to make therapeutic service more accessible, but most of them only provide one-way passive contents for their users, such as psycho-education, health monitoring, and clinical assessment. We present a robotic coach that not only delivers interactive positive psychology interventions but also provides other useful skills to build rapport with college students. Results from our on-campus housing deployment feasibility study showed that the robotic intervention showed significant association with increases in students’ psychological well-being, mood, and motivation to change. We further found that students’ personality traits were associated with the intervention outcomes as well as their working alliance with the robot and their satisfaction with the interventions. Also, students’ working alliance with the robot was shown to be associated with their pre-to-post change in motivation for better well-being. Analyses on students’ behavioral cues showed that several verbal and nonverbal behaviors were associated with the change in self-reported intervention outcomes. The qualitative analyses on the post-study interview suggest that the robotic coach’s companionship made a positive impression on students, but also revealed areas for improvement in the design of the robotic coach. Results from our feasibility study give insight into how learning users’ traits and recognizing behavioral cues can help an AI agent provide personalized intervention experiences for better mental health outcomes
• 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 Ramón y Cajal Fellowship Program (RYC-2016-19770, AEI/ESF) and AL is supported by RTI2018-095232-B-C22 grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
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• dc.identifier.citation Jeong S, Aymerich-Franch L, Kika Arias K, Alghowinem S, Lapedriza A, Picard R, Park HW, Breazeal C. Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being. User Model User-adapt Interact. 2023;33:571-615. DOI: 10.1007/s11257-022-09337-8
• dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-022-09337-8
• dc.identifier.issn 0924-1868
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53800
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction. 2023;33:571-615.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/RYC-2016-19770
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• dc.subject.keyword Socially assistive robot
• dc.subject.keyword Positive psychology
• dc.subject.keyword Well-being
• dc.title Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being
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