Extended Interviews with Stroke Patients Over a Long-Term Rehabilitation Using Human-Robot or Human-Computer Interactions.

ABSTRACT: Socially assistive robots (SARs) have been proposed to assist post-stroke patients in performing their exercise during their rehabilitation process, with the trust in the robot identified as an important factor in human-robot interaction. In the current study, we aimed to identify and characterize factors that influence post-stroke patients' trust in a robot-operated and a computer-operated rehabilitation platform during and after a long-term experience with the platform. We conducted 29 interviews with 16 stroke patients who underwent a long-term rehabilitation process, assisted by either a SAR or a computer interface. The intervention lasted 5-7 weeks per patient, for a total of 229 sessions over 18 months. By using a qualitative research method-extended interviews "in the wild" with str

SUBMITTER: Koren Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483483 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature