Preliminary usability evaluation of a teleoperated humanoid robot for pediatric waiting-room observation: clinical and technical professionals’ perspectives
Antea Scrocco, Samuele Bordini, Riccardo Kristen Simi, Elisa Matteucci, Elena Beani, Giovanni Cioni, Eugenia Conti, Maria Chiara Di Lieto, Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi, Giuseppina Sgandurra, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano · 2026
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Antea Scrocco and colleagues try out a remotely driven humanoid robot as a quiet watcher in a children's clinic, in this usability study from twenty twenty-six. Waiting rooms offer a rare chance to watch how children behave in a natural setting. A robot that a clinician steers from afar could do that watching without looming over the child, but only if staff find it easy to run.
No children took part yet: thirteen clinicians and engineers tested the robot, called Alter-Ego, in a child neuropsychiatry waiting room. Standard questionnaires scored its ease of use in the acceptable range, and users rated it lively, likeable, safe, and smart. Mental demand and effort were the main costs, while frustration stayed low. Past gaming or virtual reality experience made no difference to the scores. The team takes the result as a green light to test the robot with real patients next.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Antea Scrocco, Samuele Bordini, Riccardo Kristen Simi, Elisa Matteucci, Elena Beani, Giovanni Cioni, Eugenia Conti, Maria Chiara Di Lieto, Giorgio Grioli, Antonio Bicchi, Giuseppina Sgandurra, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |