Individual Squash Training is More Effective and Social with a Humanoid Robotic Coach*

Individual Squash Training is More Effective and Social with a Humanoid Robotic Coach*

Ross, Martin K. (Heriot-Watt University)
Broz, F. (TU Delft Interactive Intelligence)
Baillie, Lynne (Heriot-Watt University)

2023

With the aim of providing extra motivation to adhere to repetitive, individual sports training, this paper presents an autonomous robotic squash coach capable of high-level personalisation. The system was evaluated in person with 16 participants each conducting three 15-minute solo practice sessions. We compared a baseline, non-coaching robotic condition to two conditions in which the robot executed one of 12 different coaching policies, each of which was based on human coaching data. In one of the coaching conditions, the policy was selected based on categories for personalisation and in the other it was selected randomly among policies. The coaching policy conditions were found to be more enjoyable, more socially competent, and perceived as a more effective coach than the baseline.

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:db407904-180e-4ae8-8e28-9d908f1a2295

https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309567

IEEE

2024-05-13

979-8-3503-3671-9

2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2023

2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023-08-28 → 2023-08-31, Busan, Korea, Republic of

IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN, 1944-9445

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2023 Martin K. Ross, F. Broz, Lynne Baillie