Creating a Robot Coach for Mindfulness and Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study
arXiv Preprint Archive June 9, 2020 Indu P. Bodala, Nikhil Churamani, Hatice Gunes
Social robots are starting to become incorporated into daily lives by assisting in the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing. This paper investigates the use of social robots for delivering mindfulness sessions. We created a teleoperated robotic platform that enables an experienced human coach to conduct the sessions in a virtual manner by replicating upper body and head pose in real time....