Skyla Y. Dudek

SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness

We explored the use of three robot interaction strategies to support people living with loneliness (physical comfort, social engagement, requiring care), by building these into a robot prototype and deploying the robots into homes for long-term evaluation. We placed our original prototype, SnuggleBot, unsupervised int…