Social robots in rehabilitation: A question of trust

Philipp Kellmeyer; Oliver Mueller; Ronit Feingold-Polak; Shelly Levy-Tzedek

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aat1587

Social robots in rehabilitation: A question of trust

Sci Robot. 2018 Aug 15;3(21):eaat1587. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aat1587. Epub 2018 Aug 15.

Authors

Philipp Kellmeyer^{1

2

3}, Oliver Mueller^{2

4}, Ronit Feingold-Polak⁵, Shelly Levy-Tzedek^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Translational Neurotechnology Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg-Medical Center, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
² Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools, University of Freiburg, Germany.
³ Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg, Germany.
⁵ Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Department of Physical Therapy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁶ Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Department of Physical Therapy, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. shelly@bgu.ac.il.
⁷ Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

PMID: 33141717
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aat1587

Abstract

Social robots can help meet the growing need for rehabilitation assistance; measures for creating and maintaining trust in human-robot interactions should be priorities when designing social robots for rehabilitation.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't