{"id":21600,"date":"2019-07-02T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=21600"},"modified":"2019-07-02T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:46:01","slug":"mediating-relatedness-for-adolescents-with-me-reducing-isolation-through-minimal-interactions-with-a-robot-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/mediating-relatedness-for-adolescents-with-me-reducing-isolation-through-minimal-interactions-with-a-robot-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediating relatedness for adolescents with ME: reducing isolation through minimal interactions with a robot avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mediating relatedness for adolescents with ME: Reducing isolation through minimal interactions with a robot avatar,<\/a> by Alma Leora Culen, Jorun Borsting, William Odom in<\/span> Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference<\/em>, Pages 359-371<\/h3>\n

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This paper discusses how a networked object in the form of a small robot designed to mediate experiences of care, social connectedness, and intimacy, was used by adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a condition that reduces their normal functioning, including the ability to socialize.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A study with nine adolescents, each using the robot for about a year in average, revealed that it was largely effective at mediating their everyday experiences of relatedness, triggering productive new habits and social practices.<\/p>\n

We interpret these findings to propose a set of strategies for designing technologies that support relatedness while requiring minimal interactivity and engagement.<\/p>\n

Balance, extension-of-self, coolness, and acts-of-care, in addition to commonly used physicalness, expressivity and awareness, enable the robot to extend the adolescents’ ability to relate to others, people and animals.<\/p>\n

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