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In Search of Informal Caregivers in HRI: Situating and Disentangling Practices concerning Robots for Care within the HRI Conference

Tanqueray, Laetitia LU ; Larsson, Stefan LU and Winkle, Katie (2024) In International Journal of Social Robotics
Abstract
Despite the acknowledged significance of informal caregivers in health care generally, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the HRI community accounts for informal caregivers. Accordingly, this article provides a systematic review of 52 articles, published within the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2006-2023), to situate informal caregivers in health care within the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community. This study relies on a theoretical lens -- deriving from Feminist HRI and Social Justice-Oriented Design -- and qualitative methods to showcase four dimensions on how informal caregivers are, \textit{or not}, being investigated in comparisons to other stakeholders within health care in HRI. These... (More)
Despite the acknowledged significance of informal caregivers in health care generally, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the HRI community accounts for informal caregivers. Accordingly, this article provides a systematic review of 52 articles, published within the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2006-2023), to situate informal caregivers in health care within the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community. This study relies on a theoretical lens -- deriving from Feminist HRI and Social Justice-Oriented Design -- and qualitative methods to showcase four dimensions on how informal caregivers are, \textit{or not}, being investigated in comparisons to other stakeholders within health care in HRI. These dimensions focus on (1) how the study is motivated, (2) who the study includes, (3) the methods used in order to answer this aim, and (4) how much caregivers are accounted for. The results point to informal caregivers only being participants in eight studies, yet are not mentioned in 15 studies, which does not echo their societal importance and our reliance in HRI on that group. We discuss our findings and provide five high-level recommendations based to account more for informal caregivers in HRI. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{Despite the acknowledged significance of informal caregivers in health care generally, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the HRI community accounts for informal caregivers. Accordingly, this article provides a systematic review of 52 articles, published within the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (2006-2023), to situate informal caregivers in health care within the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community. This study relies on a theoretical lens -- deriving from Feminist HRI and Social Justice-Oriented Design -- and qualitative methods to showcase four dimensions on how informal caregivers are, \textit{or not}, being investigated in comparisons to other stakeholders within health care in HRI. These dimensions focus on (1) how the study is motivated, (2) who the study includes, (3) the methods used in order to answer this aim, and (4) how much caregivers are accounted for. The results point to informal caregivers only being participants in eight studies, yet are not mentioned in 15 studies, which does not echo their societal importance and our reliance in HRI on that group. We discuss our findings and provide five high-level recommendations based to account more for informal caregivers in HRI.}},
  author       = {{Tanqueray, Laetitia and Larsson, Stefan and Winkle, Katie}},
  issn         = {{1875-4791}},
  keywords     = {{HRI; Health Care; Informal Caregivers; Critical Systematic Literature Review; Social Justice; Feminist HRI}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{International Journal of Social Robotics}},
  title        = {{In Search of Informal Caregivers in HRI: Situating and Disentangling Practices concerning Robots for Care within the HRI Conference}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/193536667/Tanqueray_et-al_2024_In_Search_of_Informal_Caregivers_in_HRI_PREPRINT.pdf}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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