Laura Aymerich-Franch

A Robotic Companion for Psychological Well-being: A Long-term Investigation of Companionship and Therapeutic Alliance

Social support plays a crucial role in managing and enhancing one’s mental health and well-being. In order to explore the role of a robot’s companion-like behavior on its therapeutic interventions, we conducted an eight-week-long deployment study with seventy participants to compare the impact of (1) a control robot w…