The goal of this study is to evaluate prompting tools/devices to rate them based on their ability to enhance compliance and the least amount of stress/annoyance. The healthcare field is infiltrated with various types of devices from wearable sensors to mobile robots. These devices are being used to enhance and augment healthcare delivery in tasks such as reminding, prompting, assisting and supervising individuals affected with chronic ailments. There is little done in the area of evaluating these devices and rating them in their ability to enhance compliance, their effectiveness, their levels of annoyance/tolerance by humans, user preferences, user trust, friendliness and helpfulness. We have selected 4 devices in the range of wearable to mobile autonomous devices- Pepper a mobile autonomous robot, Cozmo a miniature mobile robot with limited dexterity, a tablet and the Apple watch. We have developed an application that will run each of the selected devices in order to analyze their effectiveness, friendliness, compliance, annoyance, trust and user preferences. The application we developed reminds individuals to correct posture every few minutes.
In this user study that is conducted with healthy participants, we will test our app that we have created to help remind individuals to maintain correct posture, with the selected 4 devices. We will to examine the reaction of the participants to prompting for posture correction using each of these devices. We will use the Empatica wearable sensor, that will be placed on the participants wrist to measure the stress levels when prompted by the devices such as the Pepper, Cozmo, tablet and the Apple watch.
The objective of this study is to investigate various(4) devices based on each of the following criteria:
1. Compliance level of the participants to the prompting
2. Level of stress/annoyance caused to participants
3. Participant preference
4. Effectiveness
5. Trust ability
6. Helpfulness
7. Friendliness
